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Editor's note
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Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino’s Pizza? When it comes to innovation and disruption, you might intuitively opt for the company behind all those new iPhones. But for Arturo Bris, Apple should no longer be considered an innovative growth company. If you look to the markets, he says, it’s actually Domino’s offering greater opportunities for growth.
Seaweed is a diet staple all over the world, and a key source of the essential mineral iodine. However, researchers have now found that although the effects of climate change will see the plant thrive in future acidic oceans, its nutritional content will change substantially. Georgina Brennan, Dong Xu and Naihao Ye explain their research and what this means for the future health of billions of people.
A recent report advised the UK government to reduce beef and lamb production by up to 50%, in order to substantially decrease the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But, writes Charlotte Pritchard, there is a way to meet climate change commitments without cutting livestock numbers: agroforestry. This method of cultivating and planting trees on farmlands can have huge benefits for the environment, farmers and the animals too.
And on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being adopted by the United Nations, Peter Roderick and Allyson Pollock write on why rights that protect against socioeconomic disadvantage are long overdue.
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Annabel Bligh
Business + Economy Editor
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Top story
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Arturo Bris, IMD Business School
Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino's Pizza?
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Seaweed salad.
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Georgina Brennan, Bangor University; Dong Xu, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences; Naihao Ye, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
Climate change will affect the nutrition of seaweeds eaten by billions of people around the world.
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Charlotte Pritchard, Bangor University
Integrating trees into farming systems can improve farming, help the environment, and boost animal welfare too.
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Swingeing changes are overdue.
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Peter Roderick, Newcastle University; Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University
In a divided, alienated, austerity, backward-looking Britain, the time has come to make good on social rights.
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Politics + Society
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Orestis Troumpounis, Lancaster University; Dimitrios Xefteris, University of Cyprus
It's the fairest way to settle this debate – though in the absence of a clear majority supporting either "remain" or a "no deal" it would probably mean accepting Theresa May's deal.
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Marcia Vera Espinoza, Queen Mary University of London; Leila Hadj-Abdou, European University Institute; Leiza Brumat, European University Institute
The number of countries withdrawing seems to be growing by the day.
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Health + Medicine
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Oli Stevens, Imperial College London; T Charles Witzel, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Blaming the rapid increases in syphilis cases on PrEP is an oversimplification of a complex problem.
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Michael Fay, Keele University
A review has suggested giving patients who are detained in hospital the right to appeal decisions about their treatment. Sadly, this may never happen.
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Environment + Energy
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Andreas Goldthau, Royal Holloway; David Waltham, Royal Holloway
Brexit may be an unexpected boon for the UK's climate leadership. Here's how the UK can seize the initiative.
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Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, King's College London
Climate change, pollution and illegal fishing by foreign boats is threatening the livelihoods of millions of people.
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Science + Technology
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Shane Rogers, Edith Cowan University
When we are asleep our brain does not switch off. It keeps working, but not as hard.
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Sarah Glozer, University of Bath
To get out of the digital advertising quagmire, the only way is (business) ethics.
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Sabrina Rau, University of Essex
Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
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