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...— Texas paid a bitcoin miner more than $31 million to power down during heatwave (Texas Public Radio) — Confessions of a McKinsey whistleblower (The Nation) — Bono & Summers, really (WaPo) — How the...
...Computacenter mostly tries to make sure that the employees of large corporations and public sector agencies have working computers. That simple proposition was a popular one, during lockdown....
...The unnamed narrator of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed 2014 novel Dept of Speculation never wanted to get married....
...David Potter Professor of Greek and Latin,Dept of Classical Studies,University of Michigan, US...
...Between 2005 and 2018, the number of university marketing and public relations staff rose nine times faster than the number of academics....
...Public support of climate goals will evaporate if we as an industry are seen to be profligate or neglect their needs. The UK’s 2050 net zero target is one of the world’s most ambitious....
..., Professor of Greek Literature and Thought, Dept of Classics, King’s College London, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: The inquisition on Wuhan needs to stop / From Niccolo Caldararo, Dept of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, CA, US...
...martin.wolf@ft.com Letter in response to this column: How rich, liberal societies got to be that way / From Robert H Wade, Professor of Global Political Economy, Dept of International Development, London...
...Prof Andrea Sella Dept of Chemistry, University College London, UK...
...A few Twitter rants later, Alphaville decided to take it up with the PR dept in the name of the public interest....
...Prof David Potter Dept of Classical Studies,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, MI, US...
...Shiploads of black captives were auctioned naked on the Lisbon docks. (Lisbon, until as late as 2018, exhibited no public acknowledgment of its vast slave-exploiting past.)...
...They are engaged in illicit trade in arms, counterfeit medicines and other vital products, ivory, human trafficking and, of course, in the rigging of public contracting....
...The vast majority of civil litigation, possibly 90 per cent, is dropped or settled out of court, which means the documents from the case are never made public....
...The president signalled he may also commute the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2011 on public corruption charges, and perhaps also...
...Mr Rees-Mogg claimed that official forecasts were based on “false assumptions” and that the outlook for the public finances was “much better” than the OBR predictions....
.... – A major source of issues is poor communication between depts. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels....
...Guillermo Larrain Dept of Economics, University of Chile...
...The new ‘uni’ experience” by Matthew Engel (Life & Arts, May 13) refers repeatedly to “profit” in the context of public universities: the University of Leicester “made a profit of £1.5m in 2015-16”; “[universities...
...“This budget only gives us a picture of one and a half years and proposes changes to the 30 percent of spending that is discretionary,” said Maya MacGuineas, President of the non-partisan Committee for a...
...We have no interest in hiding or glossing over the facts on child or forced labour from the public, from the government of Uzbekistan or from the World Bank....
...We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!”. On Monday, he said the courts were “slow and political”....
...Dr Niccolo Caldararo Dept of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, CA, US...
...Mr Weidmann and the Bundesbank enjoy a huge amount of affection from the German public. The same can’t be said of ECB chief Mario Draghi....
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