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A summer reading list for advisors trying to understand the world – and their clients
As we enter the dog days of summer, Globe Advisor asked top economists and advisors to recommend books that advisors should ...
1.5 million loans, 840,000 visitors and counting, NLB’s mobile libraries keep reading accessible
They are among 840,000 users who have visited Molly since it first hit the roads in 2008. Over the past decade, the mobile ...
From libraries to living rooms: How reading habits take root in underserved S’pore children
A new reading mentorship programme is part of a growing effort to expand access to books. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...
The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
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Frontiers | Factors associated with metabolic syndrome among adult ...
ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate risk factors for metabolic syndrome (MS) among adult residents in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, using a nested c ...
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Trained by Japan’s best for nearly a decade, this Singaporean now handcrafts bespoke shoes under his own label
After training under renowned shoemakers like Yohei Fukuda and Noriyuki Misawa, Tor Cheng Yao brings the quiet precision and ...
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The body parts evolution still can't explain
Why do humans uniquely have a chin, for example? And why, relative to body weight, is a human testicle triple the size of a gorilla's but a fifth that of a chimpanzee? As I show in my new book ...