Over the last few years, I have served on a committee of the National Academy of Sciences to produce some posters and other related media to showcase twenty-first century and its applications in the real world, suitable for display in classrooms or math departments. Our posters (together with some associated commentary, webinars on related topics, […]
Illustrating the Impact of the Mathematical Sciences
Author: Isadore Nabi
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Illustrating the Impact of the Mathematical Sciences
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Wages, prices and profit – turning down
The inflation rate for consumer prices in the US has clearly peaked and is falling steadily. The latest figure for year-on-year inflation in December was 6.4%, down from a peak of 9.0% last summer. Core inflation (which excludes prices for food and energy) has also peaked but not by nearly as much. That’s because it […]
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Davos 23: going pear-shaped
This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum. Top political and business leaders have flown in on their private jets to discuss climate change and global warming, as well as the impending global economic slump, the cost of living crisis and […]
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Co-operative Agriculture – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham Co-operative Agriculture | RSS.com Catharine Wilson joins me to talk about the history of co-operative work bees in rural Canada. Communal events to complete big projects in short amount of time, work bees are representative of rural Canadian culture and are the subject of Catharine’s new book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and […]
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Violent Encounters: Franco-Spanish Aggression in the Early Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
By Cindy Ermus The following is largely an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my new book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, February 2023). which explores how the Plague of Provence (1720-22) unfolded in the European overseas colonies, paying special attention to the port […]
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Keynes and the left
“The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists had always instinctively held and known to be right” (TUC, 1968, p. 85) The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in […]
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Feeling Depressed? Performing Acts of Kindness May Help
Source:Ohio State University People suffering from symptoms of depression or anxiety may help heal themselves by doing good deeds for others, new research shows. The study found that performing acts of kindness led to improvements not seen in two other therapeutic techniques used to treat depression or anxiety. Most importantly, the acts of kindness technique […]
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Widespread death and destruction plays second fiddle to Western foreign policy in Syria
The US and Europe not lifting sanctions shows that they value political gain over human life.
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THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOLLOWING THE INVASION OF THE UKRAINE, together with the growing US budgetary deficit and problems with the UK strike wave.
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THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOLLOWING THE INVASION OF THE UKRAINE, together with the growing US budgetary deficit and problems with the UK strike wave.