With each industrial revolution, food production and distribution has been revolutionized. With the current Fourth Industrial Revolution, can we address inequalities in food distribution?
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Two management experts devised a new way to predict whether your job is likely to get stolen by a robot – and what you can do about it.
The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
The practices and values of craftsmanship correspond well with the requirements for a sustainable economy. But they’re threatened by industry.
Our love affair with the chair has horrible consequences.
On the fourth era of business schools and the urgency of reinventing them.
The gooey treat couldn’t have become popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses.
This is certainly a moment to bring Engels’s shade out of the shadows.
These female workers had their health destroyed by a horrific disease known as ‘phossy jaw’. It caused their jaw bones to glow in the dark and rot away.
The panic about British children reaching puberty younger is unwarranted. Medieval skeletons provide a different answer.
If President Trump really wants to restore America’s manufacturing might he should invest heavily in AI, the internet of things and other emerging technologies that are changing the world.
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?
Other than church, the pipe organ is often perceived as belonging in horror movies. But there’s more to the instrument that spans most musical genres.
The current rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is unprecedented in the past 800,000 years. As our video explains, ice cores track human changes to the atmosphere that are far beyond natural.
Regular physical activity energises you to perform daily chores, deal with stress better and improves your quality of sleep.
The institutions that once allowed us to pull ahead may soon be the reason we fall behind.
The first signs that humans were warming the climate appeared much earlier in the northern hemisphere - way back in the 1830s. But now the trend is emerging all over the globe.
Sure, it’s got a flag and some bank notes – but the EU will need to do better if it’s to compete with its members’ strong, national design heritage.
Britain lucked out with its coal deposits – but other nations have developed without coal.
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising faster than at any point in the past 55 million years.
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Chief Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Honorary Associate Professor of Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Historian, Swansea University
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Kent
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Professor, Environmental Futures & Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Management Science & Innovation, UCL
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Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, University of Bradford
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Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Music, University of Pretoria