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By Carl Dowse

Fun, interesting articles and resources to help you improve and benefit from your English.

How to Improve Your Business English
Harvard Business Review - Minh Tran, Peter Burman
Chun Hin is a senior manager at a Hong Kong investment bank. Every morning, he listens to Bloomberg radio on his way to work and used to read each issue of the Economist from cover to cover in an effort
2 Billion Voices: How to speak bad English perfectly | Heather Hansen | TEDxOdense
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Why North Korea keeps changing its time zone
The Economist
THE meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea, Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in, on April 27th was widely considered a success. The goodwill …
Jeff Bezos: the boy who wanted to colonise space
The Guardian - Rupert Neate
In 1994, Jeff Bezos held 60 meetings with family members, friends and potential investors in an attempt to persuade them to invest $50,000 (£35,000) in his revolutionary idea to create an online bookshop.
A study finds nearly half of jobs are vulnerable to automation
The Economist
A WAVE of automation anxiety has hit the West. Just try typing “Will machines…” into Google. An algorithm offers to complete the sentence with …
The “national shame” of Britain’s treatment of Windrush migrants
The Economist
THE past few years have been a “nightmare”, says Anthony Bryan. After his passport application was turned down, the Home Office claimed he was an …
Why do we believe things that aren't true? | Philip Fernbach | TEDxMileHigh
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Good news at last: the world isn’t as horrific as you think
The Guardian - Hans Rosling
Training yourself how to put the news into perspective – practising ‘factfulness’ – will change your outlook for the better Things are bad, and it feels like they are getting worse, right? War, violence,
Germany is becoming more open and diverse
The Economist
SINCE the fall of the Berlin Wall the Ampelmännchen, the jaunty, behatted “little traffic-light man” of communist East Germany, has escaped his …
The battle for digital supremacy
The Economist
“DESIGNED by Apple in California. Assembled in China”. For the past decade the words embossed on the back of iPhones have served as shorthand for the …
Google to ban adverts for cryptocurrency and ICOs
The Telegraph - By Matthew Field
Google is to ban cryptocurrency adverts following a similar move by Facebook that sees the two giants of online advertising blocking controversial cryptocurrency promotions. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
One of the world's biggest investment firms thinks Bitcoin is worth zero
Mashable - Stan Schroeder
Bitcoin's value is zero, but there's potential in blockchain as technology, says a recent note from Allianz Global Investors (AGI), the investment …
Xi Jinping is using his growing authority to amass even more
The Economist
IDEOLOGICAL flexibility has long been critical to success in China. The office of a state-owned company in Wuhan, a big central city, testifies to …
You probably won’t remember this, but the “forgetting curve” theory explains why learning is hard
Quartz - By Nikhil Sonnad
Learning has an evolutionary purpose: Among species, individuals that adapt to their environments will succeed. That’s why your brain more easily retains important or surprising information: It takes little
Google Song Maker adds a music suite to your browser
Engadget - Daniel Cooper
A modern-day upgrade on 'Mario Paint Composer'. Google loves using sequencers as a way of teaching folks how to make music, and it's a neat toy to put on its homepage every now and again. The repository
How the West got China wrong
The Economist
LAST weekend China stepped from autocracy into dictatorship. That was when Xi Jinping, already the world’s most powerful man, let it be known that he …
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Apple is trying to lock down battery components before electric carmakers get them
The Verge - Thuy Ong
Cobalt is a key mineral used in lithium-ion batteries Apple is in talks to buy cobalt directly from miners to help shield it from any shortages sparked by the boom in electric cars, according to a report
To get a ride, Uber says take a walk
apnewsarchive.com - By TOM KRISHER
DETROIT (AP) — The latest variation of an Uber ride will require a short walk. In eight U.S. cities, the ride-hailing company is rolling out a service …
The glass-ceiling index
The Economist
“PRESS for progress” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8th. As our sixth glass-ceiling index shows, disparity between …
How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?
The Economist
AMERICANS, and friends of America, often reassure themselves about its relative decline in the following way. Even if the roads, airports and schools …
Airbus’ autonomous ‘air taxi’ Vahana completes its first test flight
The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins
Fifty-three seconds of glory Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on January 31st, the aerospace giant announced. At the
Going to university is more important than ever for young people
The Economist
IN A classroom in Seoul a throng of teenagers sit hunched over their desks. In total silence, they flick through a past exam paper. Stacks of …
Why the world still awaits its first space elevator
The Economist
FOR decades engineers and science-fiction writers have dreamed of lifts capable of carrying things into orbit from the Earth’s surface. Konstantin …
Online courses don't work, but education can still be disrupted
Wired UK - Lior Frenkel
The labour force is changing at a rapid pace. Technology is generating entirely new industries and jobs, while eradicating antiquated ones. Some may …
Winter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change
The Economist
THE great limestone peaks of the Dolomites glow ochre and pink in the summer sunset. The slab of the Marmolada glacier, the “Queen of the Dolomites”, …
Bitcoin Explained: Why Is It Worth So Much Money?
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Advertisement Do you follow Bitcoin? At the start of December, the price of the cryptocurrency rocketed up to over $19,000 per coin. Early investors …
The Donald versus Davos Man
The Economist
THE 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum gets underway today amid heavy snowfall in Davos, a Swiss ski resort. The forum was created in …
Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future
The New York Times - By NICK WINGFIELD
SEATTLE — The first clue that there’s something unusual about Amazon’s store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you are entering a subway station. A row of gates guard the to
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Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts
BBC News - By Chris Johnston
In a move that could revolutionise the way we buy groceries, Amazon has opened a supermarket with no checkout operators or self-service tills. Long queues formed outside the Amazon Go store in Seattle