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The Game Of The Name by Nigel Roth
Back in the day, I worked with a design agency whose director’s first name was Merriman. At the time I thought this quite odd and...
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The Oban Colossus by Nigel Roth
In 1897, stonemasons and bricklayers traipsed up a hill on the west coast of Scotland, one of the wettest places in Europe, to build the...
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Taxing Robots by Xavier Oberson, Professor at Geneva University, attorney-at-law
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and of robots in particular is very likely to have a tremendous impact on the job ...
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The Cockles Of Your Heart by Nigel Roth
This week, two-hundred and twenty-four years ago, Robden of Solway Firth died. He was just 37 years of age. His lighter-Scots dialect...
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Odds Bodkins by Nigel Roth
In December of 1983 the Italian hill town of Calcata was shocked by the greatest theft in its known history. It was the priest who had...
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Talking Heads edito by Nigel Roth
In 1537, as the Spanish people tucked into patatas bravas for the first time and reflected on Pope Paul’s suggestion that indigenous...
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Thor, God of Water by Nigel Roth
It's 1947. Ferrari and Saab debut their first cars, Edwin Land introduces the world to something called the instant camera, and the first...
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Long Live Divorce by Nigel Roth
On January 5, 1643, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was still heartily suckling from her bullying mother’s engorged breasts, a woman...
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The Not-so-greatful Dead by Nigel Roth
No Man’s Land, the legendary London burial ground of 17th century plague victims, is no longer a legend. Excavations for unwieldy and...
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On the Brand Wagon by Fiona Evans
As of Wednesday, at least 530 brands had officially boycotted Facebook, with the intention of forcing Mark Zuckerburg to take a stand...
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