Societies

Building societies paying up to 1.65% while big banks offer just 0.01%

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For canny savers it pays to go local: Building societies paying up to 1.65% while big banks offer just 0.01% By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 19 January 2021 Savers can fare much better with local building societies than with the big banks. Building … Read more

Professor warns space exploration will spark totalitarian societies equipped with nuclear weapons

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Space agencies across the world are working tirelessly to design the best ships and technologies at a chance to claim a stake of the final frontier for their country. Although it may seem like an act of national pride, a professor from Johns Hopkins University warns that space expansion may lead to the extinction of … Read more

Valuable axes from German burial site suggest Neolithic societies were not as egalitarian as thought

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Valuable stone axes discovered at a 6,000-year old hilltop burial site in Germany suggest Neolithic societies were not as egalitarian as previously thought The two rare weapons were found at a tumulus site west of Frankfurt in the 1880s Experts have linked them to a burial mound recently found at the neolithic site The presence of … Read more

Societies with a history of labour-intensive farming prefer harder work, scientists suggest

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Nose to the grindstone? Blame our farming past! Societies with a history of labour-intensive farming prefer harder work, scientists suggest Research could explain why UK’s employees work an average of 42 hours a week  Stanford study looked at how hard work preferences come to persist over time It used data from the bi-annual European Social … Read more