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Type: Article10 min

The Soft Skills Crisis AI Is Quietly Creating

AI can draft, summarise and answer, but it cannot practise judgment for us. Grace Lordan warns that the human skills we stop using may quietly fade.

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Type: Article9 min

Business Survival Rates: How Long Do New Businesses Last?

What official US data say about business survival rates: how many new businesses make it through year one, five years and a decade, and what the numbers miss.

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Type: Article11 min

Global Poverty Is Falling at Every Line, Not Just One

Global poverty has fallen at every line since 2000, not just the lowest one. Here is what the latest figures show, and the large job that remains.

A farmer harvests red coffee cherries into a woven basket among farm rows at golden hour
Type: Article8 min

Why Coffee Still Costs $9 After the Shortage Ended

Bean prices fell 25%, but the average US pound of coffee still costs $9.33. Where the money goes between the farm and your shelf.

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Type: Article9 min

Your Supermarket’s Carbon Numbers May Not Be Measured

Almost all of a supermarket’s carbon footprint lies in its supply chain. A new analysis shows how little of the headline number is actually measured — and proposes two fixes.

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Art & Culture

Music Training Changes How the Brain Reads Music
Type: Article6 min

Music Training Changes How the Brain Reads Music

A Hong Kong study finds musicians, learners and non-musicians use different brain-side strategies when reading scores — and formal training is the factor that shifts the balance.

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