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> #flextension The latest Brexit buzzword. Proving yet again that those eurocrats are canny negotiators. This week’s output provides not one deadline date, but two. Each conditional on certain actions. The main aim (Plan A) acceptance delays to the farther horizon. Failure, and the closer one takes over instead.

Birmingham University tested 400 schoolchildren [https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/03/chatterpies-haggisters-and-ninuts-could-help-children-love-conservation.aspx] . The aim; find the best way to teach children about the importance of wildlife. “Does the type of information affect the attitudes to that species and its conservation?” Two types of lesson focused on

The wonders of stem cell therapy are spreading across all sorts of new areas of remedy. Once fatal conditions are now getting cured yet there appears a potential brake on treatment. I caught that one first-time donor, who’s contribution directly saved a particular leukemia patient, revealed that many in

🔖2 min read (or is it 3?) I learn Facebook recently wanted their staff concentration levels better matched to task attentions required. They employed psychologists to observe how their current workforce navigate their day. I did wonder on echoes of the (in)famous Hawthorne experiments. An Aussie professor called Elton

There may, or may not [https://www.dw.com/en/boeing-737-max-a-plane-of-compromise/a-47852944], be an issue with the ‘ai’ that flies Boeing’s latest iteration of the world’s best selling plane. Two fatal disasters in short order. Last year off Indonesia, and this week East Africa. 346 deaths [https://news.

I was once in a salesroom when a manager apologetically, dismissively you could say, glanced at a league table scrawled on a whiteboard (which tallied new self-booked first meetings) and said “the boss likes their visuals”. Now, these kinds of logs may not always be quite the winner they might

Helicopter Money [https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/082216/what-difference-between-helicopter-money-and-qe.asp] is a concept gaining airtime lately. It’s an economics construct. Supposedly to help when a country experiences low growth and low interest rates. The idea is that, rather than pile ginormous wads into the vaults of the banksters

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/funds/14bn-fund-managera-tip-dentist-now-fastest-growing-investment/] Here’s recent newsfeed clickbait. From London’s Telegraph broadsheet. The story, as much as it is, features the Big I Am of a bankster who’s firm managed to lose 40pc of the funds under its control in the 2008 crash,

> a period of five consecutive days where the temperature each day hits five degrees above average for that time of year I learn this week that whilst there is no official definition of a heatwave, the more temperate climates use the above gauge as their guide to ascribing labels