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...Host Isabel Berwick speaks to a number of the shortlisted authors, including Amy Edmondson, author of ‘Right Kind of Wrong’; Ed Conway, who wrote ‘Material World’; Siddharth Kara, whose latest book is ‘Cobalt...
...In the services and technology age — what Ed Conway dubs “the ethereal world” — these were mundane commodities that could be easily bought on global markets....
...Ed Conway, in his book Material World (2023), points to some unnerving numbers on the sheer quantity of stuff — sand, water, earth — that we move around....
...The other 2023 finalists were Material World, by Ed Conway, which explores the origins and uses of six minerals that underpin the modern world; Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk, a biography of one of the highest-profile...
...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway (WH Allen/Penguin Random House) Six key materials — sand (used for concrete), salt (for fertiliser), iron (and steel), copper (for...
...Ed Conway in clipSo my name’s Ed Conway. My day job is I cover economics and data for Sky News and I write occasional stuff on the side....
...Anjli RavalFT management editor Ed Conway’s Material World is a self-described whistle-stop tour of the six vital resources that dictate our modern existence....
...The shortlisted titles for the £30,000 award are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future, by Ed Conway, explores the origins and uses of six key minerals that make up “the bedrock of...
...The World of Work This week on Working IT, the FT’s Isabel Berwick speaks to some of this year’s most prominent business-book authors, including Amy Edmondson, Ed Conway and Mustafa Suleyman....
...I’ve just started Ed Conway’s book on the resources sector, Material World, which drives home the point that despite — or, in fact, largely because of — the inexorable march of advanced technology, we “citizens...
...Conway thread on ‘that’ Huw Pill comment and the grim reality behind it (Twitter) — Is it sexist to want Dianne Feinstein to retire?...
...Fitness coach Ed Conway will be leading a 90-minute architectural running tour starting in King’s Cross and winding up in Bloomsbury — a route spotlighting mid-century and brutalist haunts such as Clerkenwell...
...Conway) — Los Angeles blizzard warning (LA Times) — Giant metal sphere washes up on the beach in Japan (Insider) — America’s after-school afterthought (Vox) — [eyes emoji] (The Sun)...
...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway (WH Allen) We are material girls and boys. Not only are we made of stuff, we are entirely dependent on stuff....
...Ed Conway complicates the lazy debate on whether fossil fuel extraction helps with energy security by pointing out that Britain exports almost all its North Sea oil....
...Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway is about our rising appetite for raw materials, looking at sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium — “the six most crucial substances...
...Ed Conway explores the origins and uses of other minerals in Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future, which underlines the world’s reliance on six key materials: sand (used for concrete...
...— No-one played a blinder here (Ed Conway’s Website) — Asset ownership versus asset management (Money Inside and Out) — Goldman plans sweeping reorganisation, combining investment banking and trading...
...price cap would halve European electricity prices and recession could be largely avoided (Schumpeter School of Business and Economics) — The Fed tries to get out in front (The Overshoot) — Sky News’s Ed...
...In May, Lilian Rodriguez-Baz, a Miami lawyer, and Ed Rollins, the prominent GOP strategist, created a new political action committee called Ready for Ron to promote him....
...My wellbeing guru is personal trainer Ed Conway of Fit As F-ck....
...Free or premium costs $12.99 per month, keelo.com Fit-as-F-ck Aimed at the “easily bored,” as London-based founder Ed Conway puts it, Fit-as-F-ck’s online HIT classes never repeat exercises, are set to...
...Rachman Review (featuring Ed Luce): Investigating ‘the doubts’ about the US presidential election Courtney Weaver: Covid-19 strips the last spontaneity out of a tired political drama US postal service...
...Rana Foroohar responds Ed, yes, I’m worried....
...Weaver, together with a handful of other ex-Republicans — including George T Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, a frequent Trump spokeswoman — announced the formation of the Lincoln Project, another group...
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