Thinking about the workforce of the future? Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor in the NHS having burnt-out in his training before becoming a fully qualified Obstetrician. It is important reading for anyone wondering how the world of busy medical staff could...
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Urban transformation: shopping by kayak in Denmark's greenest neighbourhoods: As nations race to reach ambitious climate goals, can sustainable urban designs help cut energy use and boost social well-being?
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Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study: Objective To investigate the association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and all cause mortality.
Design Prospective population based...
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The basics of basic income - John Kay: Basic income schemes cannot work and distract from sensible, feasible and necessary welfare reforms.
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Out of Africa: Notes from a visit to Kenya - John Kay: Financial services for a developing economy need to be established from the bottom up, not the top down.
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Trump victory has its roots in the post cold-war settlement - John Kay: There is wide agreement that Brexit and Trump's election were caused by economics. But this and the prescriptions - tweaks to the income distribution, more aid to failing industries and districts - understate the scale and nature...
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Jam tomorrow: The meaning of non-tariff trade barriers - John Kay: The reality of Brexit and trade negotiations is a review of the rules governing myriads of individual products in mind-numbing detail. Those who thought Brexit meant less regulation, less bureaucracy, fewer civil servants, are in for...
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Varied diet (or the means to afford a varied diet) is healthy for you.
"Dietary Diversity, Diet Cost, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in the United Kingdom: A Prospective Cohort Study: Using a large prospective cohort, Annalijn Conklin and colleagues investigate the association between dietary diversity...
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John Kay - I am Scottish, British and European and happy to remain so
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John Kay - The dangers of confusing democracy with populism
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John Kay - Central problem with banks is “too complex to fail” not “too big to fail”
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John Kay - Radical uncertainty: The importance of the things we do not know we do not know
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Good read. Obliquity by John Kay on behavioural economics. "The world is complex, imperfectly known, and our knowledge of it is incomplete, and these things will remain true however much we learn and however much we analyse it." That is why we need to be 'oblique' or muddle through rather than be direct...
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Could this evidence suggest dietary guidelines work or is there something else going on in Japan? "Quality of diet and mortality among Japanese men and women: Japan Public Health Center based prospective study" Kayo Kurotani. Shamima Akter. Ikuko Kashino. Atsushi Goto. Tetsuya Mizoue. Mitsuhiko Noda....
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Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2016
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