- May 11, 2021
- 5 min
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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- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
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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- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
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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- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
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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- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
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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