Some while ago, the chief executive of UBS told bankers there that henceforth “it was OK for them to make mistakes”. A culture in which everyone was petrified of taking risks, Sergio Ermotti said, wasn’t in the interest of the bank or its clients. “How mature, came the response. How refreshing to hear a bank …
Wonderful news! The highly intelligent new British Prime Minister has corralled three of the most vocal and dangerous people safely in her Cabinet and made them responsible for Brexit. Since it is unlikely that the EU will agree to scrapping free movement of people and still allow Britain to trade freely with the EU, prime …
The following are ten basic ethical tenets of Epicureanism – how should we live? What is the goal of living? How should we pursue that goal? 1. Don’t be concerned about “gods” – supernatural beings do not exist, and even if there are any “perfect” higher beings they are not concerned with mankind. The only …
There has been a decline in new cases of diabetes in US adults at a time when most despaired of the relentless upward trend. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new cases fell from 1.7 million in 2008 to 1.4 million in 2014 – the first consistent drop since 1990, although …
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Rising seas, raging storms, melting ice and forest fires are exposing artefacts that have much to tell us about our history on Earth – from sunken shipwrecks to the ancient waste dumps filled with bones, shoes and carvings that are emerging all over the Arctic and further south. They could soon be lost forever, destroyed by …
