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Sales of British “Independent” paper have slumped from a high of more than 400,000 in 1989 to just over 40,000 today. It has just announced that it will no longer be printed but will go fully digital, yet another casualty of the tech age. A healthy Press, and properly funded investigative reporters, are vital if …
The “incestuous relationship” between business schools and management consultancies is nothing new, but it seems to have stepped up a gear. Placement statistics published by the Financial Times suggest consultancies are now luring the majority of MBA graduates, offering salaries of up to $145,000 a year. Meanwhile, growing numbers of senior management consultants are teaching …
Drugs to help halt the advance of Alzheimer’s disease could be available within a decade, a leading neuroscientist has predicted. Speaking at the Royal Society in London, Professor John Hardy, of University College London, said that pharmaceutical companies are trialling new drugs designed to slow the disease by fighting the build-up in the brain of …
Americans are now watching the last series of Downton Abbey. In the days of the landed aristocracy and a large domestic servant population, the life of the domestic servant could offer a degree of predictability, security and comradeship; it could also be demeaning, exploitative and cruel, depending on the family and the boss. As soon …
It seems that resting in a quiet room for 10 minutes without distractions can boost our ability to remember new information. “A lot of people think the brain is a muscle that needs to be continually stimulated, but perhaps that’s not the best way,” says Michaela Dewar at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. To store them long-term, new memories …
