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Classrooms enhance value of learning
Oped, Matthew Robert Ferguson, Published on 18/09/2021
» Thank goodness for Zoom and platforms like it. They have salvaged more than an entire academic year of study for our Thai university students.
Tesla Quarterly Deliveries Hit Record
Business, Robert Wall, Published on 05/10/2020
» Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries hit a new record in the most recent quarter, accelerating the Silicon Valley car maker's recovery after sales slowed during the height of the pandemic.
What's Next for the Energy Grid
Business, Robert Lee Hotz & Kevin Hand, Published on 15/02/2020
» Today, the U.S. electric grid connects more than 9,000 electricity producers to millions of consumers through 6 million miles of transmission lines managed by more than 3,000 different private and public organizations. In the coming years, these numbers are set to expand, while the demand for renewable energy grows.
As Justice Department Pressures Apple, Investigators Say iPhone Easier to Crack
Business, Robert McMillan, Published on 16/01/2020
» The escalation of a long-running encryption conflict between the Justice Department and Apple Inc. has puzzled security experts who say that new hacking tools have made it possible to gain access to many of the company's devices in criminal investigations.
The 7-decade battle for universal human rights
News, Robert Destro, Published on 10/12/2019
» In today's splintered world, it is tempting to assume that there is absolutely nothing upon which all nations can agree and all cultures can embrace as an integral part of their communities. But International Human Rights Day, celebrated on Dec 10, reminds us that it wasn't so long ago that the world came together to do exactly that. On Dec 10, 1948, the United Nations unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a set of rights to which all individuals are entitled. Rights such as being free from torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. Rights like freedom of religion or belief. The freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. The right to form and join trade unions. Under the UDHR, every human being in the world can claim these as their own birthright, no matter their citizenship or allegiance.
Is politics at last grasping the Fed?
News, Robert J. Barro, Published on 30/07/2019
» From the early 1980s until the start of the financial crisis in September 2008, the US Federal Reserve seemed to have a coherent process for adjusting its main short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate. Its policy had three key components: the nominal interest rate would rise by more than the rate of inflation; it would increase in response to a strengthening of the real economy; and it would tend toward a long-term normal value.
Evaluations inspire teaching success
News, Matthew Robert Ferguson, Published on 03/07/2019
» As a lecturer at a respected university in Thailand, evaluating my students is a critical part of my job. I will do this four to five times a term, assessing their assignments, their progress, their development.
Business and biodiversity
Business, Robert Watson, Published on 01/03/2019
» At the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos in January, evidence of mounting threats to nature and of nature's contributions to people featured higher on the agenda than ever before. The task for business leaders around the world is to embrace this evidence and start acting as stewards, rather than spoilers, of our vital natural assets.
'Yellow vests' just want their aspirations respected
News, Robert Zaretsky, Published on 06/12/2018
» Just over 50 years ago, Jacques Tati's Playtime opened in French movie theatres. In the comedy, Tati once again features his iconic character, Monsieur Hulot, the confused but courtly Parisian who confronts the challenges of a rapidly modernising France. This time, Mr Hulot tries to navigate the shining and sleek newly developed periphery of Paris, suddenly bristling with buildings and streets that are indistinguishable from one another. The camera captures the hopelessness of Mr Hulot's quest when it focuses on a rond-point, or traffic circle, around which slow-moving cars and buses, like brightly coloured horses on a merry-go-round, circle endlessly.
Evidence suggests popular supplements not needed for bone health
Life, Robert Ashley, Published on 20/02/2018
» DEAR DOCTOR: If vitamin D and calcium don’t reduce the risk of bone fractures in older adults, as I recently read, is there any point in taking them?