• Very very roughly, the scenarios suggest that this might be true - ie Ed Balls might be right - if the economy is actually in a downturn.

    BBC: IMF report on UK makes for unhappy reading

  • But it has already been shown that some smaller animals, such as frogs and crickets, pick up information from the seismic part of what everybody had assumed to be simple acoustic (ie, airborne) signals.

    ECONOMIST: Extra sensory perception

  • To make a claim against the council you would need to be able to prove that they were negligent - ie that they knew it was going to be really windy and they deliberately left bins lying out where they could cause damage.

    BBC: Fergus Muirhead

  • Another article says that preference should be given to traditional (ie heterosexual) family relationships, and says that marriage and the parent-child relationship form the basis of the traditional family.

    BBC: Q&A: Hungary's controversial constitutional changes

  • When given a Twitter account, the system reports how many users it thinks are fake, how many are inactive accounts (ie. could be real accounts but do not have much activity) and how many are active accounts.

    FORBES: Twitter's Growing Spam Problem

  • And, like other shares, but unlike mutual funds, they can be bought on margin (ie, for an initial downpayment) or sold short (ie, borrowed and sold in the hope that the price will fall) which allows much more sophisticated trading strategies.

    ECONOMIST: Passive investing: Another kind of web | The

  • Dr Christakis and Dr Fowler suggest that a hybrid method might be developed in which the search queries of a group of highly connected (ie, popular) individuals could be scanned for signs of the flu.

    ECONOMIST: Epidemiology: Infectious personalities | The

  • Philips is undergo radical changes to accelerate our business to be more Market-Driven (ie Customer focus).

    FORBES: Connect

  • Relatively few users are thought to be suffering from the clash between IE and the security patches.

    BBC: NEWS | Technology | Hackers target latest Windows fix

  • It requires districts to have the same population, so that their boundaries must be redrawn after every census (ie, once a decade).

    ECONOMIST: Election boundaries

  • Are they guaranteed to last 25 years (ie. would they be replaced)?

    FORBES: 'Reinvented' Lightbulb Smashes Through Kickstarter Goal, Raising $270,000

  • The resulting specimens will then be sorted and the best (ie, those that have flourished in the saline soils of Miyagi's paddies) selected for crossbreeding, in order to concentrate desirable mutations into reproducible lines of plants.

    ECONOMIST: Salt-tolerant rice

  • These go through various possible scenarios for fiscal policy, exploring whether, in effect, the shadow chancellor Ed Balls is right to say that the economy would be better off tightening more slowly - ie whether we would get more growth, overall, if we saved some of the cuts for later.

    BBC: IMF report on UK makes for unhappy reading

  • By 1968 he had concluded that they could be kept in order by stochastic (ie, random) cooling: identifying a wayward particle on one side of the accelerator ring, sending a signal directly across to the other end, and tweaking the magnetic field to nudge the oncoming errant particle back into the beam.

    ECONOMIST: Simon van der Meer | The

  • This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus: Burger-thy-neighbour policies | The

  • Who wants to be the first carrier to push Apple away, ie push their customers to the other carriers?

    FORBES: Apple's Recent Stock Price: Explanations

  • Why, that would be everyone using Windows XP and 2000 because only IE 8 and lower are supported on those operating systems.

    FORBES: Another Reason to Get Rid of Internet Explorer

  • Dr Okal has used this technology to identify tsunamis caused by landslides (ie, the sort most likely to be dangerous, and thus require evacuations to be organised).

    ECONOMIST: New ways of tracking these killer waves may help save lives

  • Boeing thinks that there will be a market for barely 400 very large aircraft (ie, bigger than today's jumbos) over the next 20 years.

    ECONOMIST: Airbus unveils its double-decker for a new era in aviation

  • Fuels would be taxed according to their CO2-generating potential (ie, coal more than oil, and oil more than gas) rather than the miscellaneous system of duties to which they are now subjected.

    ECONOMIST: A cooling off period

  • New solutions to old problems, and free us from old world solutions (ie money which replaced gold) and not only be used to further entrench those in power?

    FORBES: Can Bitcoin Survive? Is It Legal?

  • An even stricter test of capital-market integration, and the one on which the flows of saving and investment really depend, is that real (ie, inflation-adjusted) interest rates should be equal across countries.

    ECONOMIST: Capital goes global

  • Remember, it was also supposed to be back on the market two years after its 2010 rescue package - ie. in 2012.

    BBC: More market alarm bells on Portugal

  • In other words, the 2013 budget will be repeated in the following four years with no adjustment for inflation (ie 508m per year).

    BBC: Ariane 5

  • Identifying which human-disease genes have counterparts in flies means that broken (ie, disease-causing) versions of those genes can be engineered into fly genomes to see what happens.

    ECONOMIST: Genomics

  • That has the effect of making metallic lead less electropositive (ie, more electronegative) than classical theory indicates it should be which would tend to make the battery worse.

    ECONOMIST: Einstein and car batteries

  • Things smaller than the wavelength of the beam you are using will not show up, so increasing the frequency (ie, reducing the wavelength) means that finer details can be picked out.

    ECONOMIST: Sound reasons to prevent kidney rejection

  • If this is done, techniques that have not yet been widely adopted may be admissible provided that they have been published and subjected to peer review (ie, the anonymous scrutiny of other experts in the subject).

    ECONOMIST: Whose body of evidence?

  • Although the details vary from country to country, a widely used rule-of-thumb says that a lease does not have to be capitalised so long as the net present value of the lease liabilities (ie, future rents) amounts to less than 90% of the value of the asset.

    ECONOMIST: Commercial property

  • Neowin speculates that the reason for this could be to start afresh: by confusing host websites with a new identifier, IE 11 might avoid having legacy CSS code thrown at it, dating back to the bad old days when web designers had to give Internet Explorer special treatment.

    ENGADGET

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