Governments face difficult choices when industries fail. They can stand by while private businesses collapse and see the resulting loss of jobs and revenue. Or they can step in and use public money to prop up these firms. The Scottish government intervened in 2019 to rescue Ferguson Marine, the last shipbuilding firm on the river Clyde, […] … learn more→

When the Internet began to take shape as we know it today in the 1980s, a wave of optimism spread about what this new network of networks could mean as a global and open technological revolution . It was no wonder: it allowed communication between people living thousands of kilometers away, almost unlimited access to knowledge, new […] … learn more→

I’ve been clearing out my book shelves. Getting rid of anything that I think I won’t actually look at again. It’s a pretty dusty dirty task as some of the books are quite old. They haven’t been opened for a long time. In order to work out what I want to keep I’ve found myself […] … learn more→

When Angelica landed a prestigious internship with a major corporation just outside of Houston, she was ecstatic about the opportunity to launch her career in finance. Such optimism was warranted, as research shows that students with internships are almost twice as likely to graduate college, have a 12.6% higher likelihood of being invited to job interviews, and earn 6% […] … learn more→

The results of French students in foreign languages, and in English in particular, are not good. While students study a foreign language – the vast majority of them English – since CP class, at the end of CM2, only one in two students (54%) master orally the syntax of questions and simple sentences, according to the […] … learn more→

Would you dare to pour a bucket of ice water over yourself? And pinching your cheekbones on camera until a bruise comes out? Would you lick toilet seats just to show what you’re capable of? The presence on social networks of challenges that encourage users to take certain risks and share images is so common that minors are very familiar […] … learn more→

Every person looks for an application or software to ease the process and integrate complex issues. If you are also looking for the same, consider browsing the internet on EdrawMax. This is one of the best, easy to use, and most potent diagramming applications that can help users create ideas effectively and efficiently. Using this […] … learn more→

In Hyperion , a science fiction novel written by Dan Simmons in 1989, the characters are connected to a network of artificial intelligences, called the “datasphere”. By allowing them to have instant access to any information, knowledge is immediately available, but the ability to think for oneself is now lost. More than thirty years after the publication of […] … learn more→

A seed collection? A collection of fossils? It may sound old-fashioned in a world of virtual reality and artificial intelligence. But these types of systematized repositories of biological material store valuable scientific information collected over time and geographical space. Biological collections can be considered as micromuseums that house scientific information of great importance for research, education and the […] … learn more→

Social media challenges are wide-ranging – both in the stunts they involve and the reasons why people do them. But why do young people take up challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives? We are an engineering professor who specializes in understanding how humans interact with computers and a psychology professor with expertise in […] … learn more→