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A fascinating story emerged from the world of English sewage technicians. Utility company Thames Water, who supply London and its surrounds aimed to rebalance their workforce. The present gender split being 33/67. Males more in post 2:1, they wished to encourage more female applicants. They altered [https://inews.

There’s plenty of talk around the world about social distancing. Specifically, what is the ‘right’ distance to stay physically apart from those outside your household. Should it be one metre or two? Or any point in between? The UK, one of the countries at the upper end of the

University College London consumer and business psychologist, Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos, found that coronavirus consumer behaviour followed a predictable human pattern; > ‘we fight to survive, then we nest, then we plan and adapt.’ Once immediate fundamentals seem mostly addressed, nesting features building new ways of surviving. Then we merge two realities

It seems governments and agencies around the world were mostly unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Whilst contingency plans may have existed on paper, preparedness exercises supposedly seeing sporadic testing, response appears to have relied mainly on luck. Whose scientists random modelling most closely guessed the unguessable. Population subservience to military

The ‘survival triangle’, as originally sketched [https://www.johnhudsonsurvival.com/field-notes/2019/6/27/the-survival-triangle] out by John Hudson [https://twitter.com/jhsurvival/], is a cycle of Hope-Plan-Work. Revisiting media rounds due to a newsjack chapter addition to his book [https://themalestrom.com/interviews/john-hudson-interview-how-to-survive/], How To Survive A Pandemic.

Trust in journalists has plummeted. Down an all-time deep ravine. The pit of which cannot be seen. Reasons for this are manifold. Outright partisan positioning of those pretending to be impartial chief among them. Self-righteous MSM shocked to receive a hammering from ordinary folk. One symptom is ‘gotcha journalism [https:

[https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/covid-19/pwc-covid-19-cfo-pulse-survey.html] American chief beansters apparently shifted their #bau stance this past month. ‘Business as Usual’ thought to push back rather from mainly inside three months (see their starting point at foot), to now instead more like between three and twelve. It

As lockdown begins to ease, there’s a mandatory quarantine period proposed for anyone crossing the border into Britain from early June. To boos and jeers from all manner of transport and tourism. Dismissed by friends of the travel sector as a “3 week wonder”, July the 1st is from

With most the planet on pandemic enforced lockdown over the weekend, a huge number of people like me must have watched the world’s first ever non-governmental manned space flight. Whilst rocket launches are hardly the stuff of remarkable tv footage any longer, I suspect this mass viewership was mainly,