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Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by huge margin

Paris has banned rental e-scooters due to increased accidents. Was it the right move?

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Business News Lessons: Talking your way to success: accent bias in the workplace

Can a person’s accent prevent them from becoming successful in their career?

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Five intimate friendships is the optimal number – I scrape two

What is the ideal number of ‘close’ friends one should have? 

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‘A swipe at fashion capitalism’: Telfar’s experiment lets customers set prices

Read about the company that lets its customers set the prices of their products.

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Elementary Business: Family Leave for All Parents

Should both parents be able to take family leave to take care of their children? Discuss this topic with your elementary-level students.

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You could cook while on the toilet: a night in one of Tokyo’s micro-apartments

Could you live in a 32m² flat if it’s close to work or school?

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Business News Lessons: Good-bye burnout! How a sabbatical could help mitigate its effects.

Can a sabbatical leave be the solution to burnout and boost personal and professional growth?

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Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Can changes to our daily diet have an impact on climate change?

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‘The most important talks no one has heard of’: why the high seas treaty matters

How are almost 200 countries trying to protect the high seas from overfishing? Read and find out.

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‘It’s a bit too castle-y’: plans to turn Cumbrian fortress into eco-attraction

Would you consider a castle in Muncaster as your next ecotourism destination?

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Business News Lessons: Leading ideas for UK growth

How can the UK economy be reactivated from its apparent stagnation? 

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Elementary Business: Trees for sale!

It’s time to invest in nature. Could the sale of trees save our natural resources?

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Forensic study finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned

Read about the mysterious death of the controversial poet days after a military coup broke out in his home country.

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Different strokes: the forgotten women of abstract expressionism

How is an art exhibition in London expanding the body of abstract expressionist artwork? Read and find out.

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Japan PM’s solution to dire birth rate has already been rejected by young

How is the Japanese government trying to motivate younger generations to have more children? Read and find out.

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Biden’s clean energy act paves Britain’s way to post-Brexit growth. Should we copy him?

The US and the EU seem to be on the right track towards green energy production. Should the UK and other nations follow suit?

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Elementary Business: Women at work—a constant struggle for gender equality

Are we close to ending inequality in the business world?

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Business News Lessons: Don’t hang up on customers

Have companies lost contact with customers by dispensing with their phone numbers?

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Why it’s time to stop filming strangers in public for social media thrills

Read about how the use of phones to film others in public has become problematic. Do you agree?

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Stop swiping, start talking: the rise and rise of the blind-dating app

Are blind-dating apps are changing the online dating scene? Read and find out more about this new trend.