3+ week, 3+ day ago  (471+ words) Q: What was the world's largest office building by floor area until 2023? A few generations back, as Baker explains in his potted history of the institution, Stanford was an academic underdog. It was considered a perfectly respectable place for wealthy Californians…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (582+ words) The watchmaker Swatch closed stores across the UK after disorder when huge queues gathered to buy a "335 limited-edition pocket watch. People had camped for up to two nights to get their hands on watches from the "Royal Pop" collection, a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (378+ words) Tax wealth. Get growth." That's the pithy conclusion of a piece by the Loughborough MP Jeevun Sandher for the news website Labour List. But while there's truth to some of what Sandher writes, his overall argument does not stack up....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (807+ words) The world was a different place in 1910, when the Mc Calls Ferry Dam spanning the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania was finally completed and its turbines started spinning." The first Ford Model T had just rolled off the line. The Wright…...