This is just your monoculture speaking. Transliterations between alphabets are actually mentioned in the article, did you read it? Nobody added anything to their alphabet, alphabets are invented and then grow and shrink organically.
Phone number looks right too. Correct format for London at the time and apparently 01-359 was the Canonbury telephone exchange, which is almost certainly the closest to Duncan Terrace!
It's pretty much in the article as many countries (not just those listed) massively incentivise quantity over quality of publications, and anyway quality is hard to judge and the proxies used are relatively easy to game. A paper mill combined with plagiarism, a citation ring and a bit of deliberately overly complicated exposition (or just plain lack of writing skill) supports many a career in academia I'm afraid.
It never occurred to me that conkers could be a class thing and you could be right. But let it be known that conkers was extremely popular at my state school; me and all of my friends grew up to be pretty left wing too by the way. Also they banned it at my school, along with pogs, yoyos, etc.
I find the word subsidy to be a possible weasel word here. I don't know all the details but a railway system has certain costs (fuel, personnel, water, upkeep, the trains themselves and so on) and takes in a certain amount of revenue (fares and subsidies, also food etc). It might be true that the government increased the subsidy in order to support the cheaper tickets. But that's not the same as "requires". Perhaps I'm splitting hairs but there's a strong danger of comparing apples and oranges if these things aren't spelled out imo.
Anything I didn't have to be taught to do, I do with my left hand or the left handed way. Opening bottles etc. But I write and play sports/musical instruments with my right hand.
With a bit of practise I can write neatly with my left but it's a bit slower. I started using a computer mouse with my left hand so that I could put a notepad just to the right of the keyboard and not compete for space with the mouse.
I also had the toys in the 90s and possibly attempted the blue Peter make of the fortress. I even had a duvet cover and lunchbox. These things were of course bought by my parents who watched the show in their childhoods. In turn my kid loves sonic and I have bought him hats and jumpers etc.
I think these revivals intentionally capitalise on nostalgia.
Nuclear cannot "make the climate better" but can perhaps slow the destruction down, only if it replaces fossil fuels, not if it is added on top due to increased energy consumption. In that case it's at best neutral.
See also: "ejaculation" used to be synonymous with "exclamation" and it's used heavily all across the Sherlock stories eg
"The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture."
One icky thing about linkedin. I moved to London as a sort of "young professional" and moved in with two other similar people. I was working at a big tech, my flatmates were at a soft drink startup and an NGO respectively. We had zero connection before and no common friends or colleagues, totally different industries. But linkedin recommended us as contacts. The only information it could possibly have been using is our shared IP address. I mean I guess it's not that surprising but it gave me a bad feeling.
I'm very skeptical of this view. Additive relationships and multiplicative relationships differ dramatically; the difference is related to linear Vs non linear phenomena. If all you mean is "positively correlated" and "negatively correlated" then you should just say that (or words to that affect).
I think acknowledging the huge role played by chance in your home ownership (and elsewhere in your life) is very important to stay humble, and to have more correct beliefs and fewer incorrect ones. I call it gratitude.
I have a trivial example: saying grace. As a lapsed catholic I found all manner of religious traditions extremely tedious as a child and especially as a teenager. I expunged all of them as soon as I turned 18. But recently we have been expressing gratitude before meals. This helps me slow down as I've always been a rapid eater and suffered indigestion; I also enjoy the food more as a result. The grace prayer is gratitude to God in whom I no longer believe. But I think acknowledging the enormous role played by pure chance in our lives is very important.
Sorry for late reply but I've seen examples that are very sloppy, problems that don't make sense, students being marked down for bad reasons etc. And the course forbids use of chatgpt etc. so it just seems really hypocritical.
I don't think it's obvious what it means to preserve historical works. A really clear example of my point is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk figure on a hill in England. For a long time the idea was to try to leave it untouched. Adding chalk was seen as something like touching up the mona Lisa. But it was in danger of being lost and if memory serves it was discovered that when it was made people would refresh the chalk regularly. It's inherent to the work that it is maintained.
Let's say this giant is at one end of the spectrum, and the Mona Lisa is at the other. Its subjective where you place cathedrals, but certainly the builders intended it to be an operational building, and throughout its history there have been additions and modifications.
Yes this is exactly my point. Simple lifestyle changes are really all that's necessary. I still see kids walking around drinking soda, I have to fight tooth and nail to prevent my little one from being given sweets and fizzy drinks on an almost daily basis (we moved to Czech republic, I don't want to be rude about my adopted home but the truth is they are quite behind on children's health and nutrition)
My parents both have fillings in almost every tooth, my sister and I have none. Neither of us did anything particularly special, my parents were quite strict about sugar (for the UK in the 80s/90s) and we brushed our teeth twice a day. I never flossed regularly, though I have started doing it more in the last few years.
I disagree with the notion that publishers "don't know it". Here I think malice really is a better explanation than incompetence. Or not malice but willful indifference. Investors don't want to be in the business of educating and informing people. They want to be in the business of renting out things that people need, or want so much that it's next door to need. This can't be done with long form journalism. The opportunity in investing in magazines is pure short term gain. Squeeze money out of the brand reputation and recognition, then move on.
Why do you guess that? The sentence includes both "safe" and "healthy"; the latter is redundant on your guess about the former. This is basic reading comprehension really.
This is a total longshot but my PhD and research has been in graph algorithms including colouring, and I'm looking for a career change. If anyone has any advice at all (roles or companies that use these skills, tools to learn, etc) I'd be very interested.
Caveats: my knowledge is mostly theoretical (eg proving np-hardness or algorithm existence results) but I'm very good at thinking algorithmically. I have only hobbyist programming skills but I am a fast learner. Thanks!
Do you read private eye? the satirical pieces are confined to a few pages in the middle, definitely not more than a third (maybe the purely humourous sections count as a third if you include cartoons). They're primarily investigative journalism if you ask me, admittedly the news pieces are often sarcastic and witty. Look up their role in the post office scandal, or the Paul Foot awards.
I think you're wrong to be honest. Experts have a lot "memorised" but never do memorisation. Chess grandmasters can recall huge sequences of moves from classic games. It's not because they sat down and tried to memorise "1. e4 e5; 2. Nf3..." It's because they understand those games, why the moves were made, why seemingly obvious alternatives weren't made etc etc
I have a PhD in mathematics and some (minimal) claim to expertise. I have also met and worked with several serious experts. What I said about chess holds true here, at least in my opinion.