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Financial Analysis - Build a ChatGPT Pairs Trading Bot - Benchmark Against Buy-and-Hold
Let's understand how to benchmark our pairs trading strategy against a buy-and-hold approach, a benchmark in trading and investing, and learn to interpret and analyze the performance of our pairs trading strategy relative to a...
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What Kind of Therapy Is Right For You?
The pandemic has more people depressed and anxious than ever. But spilling your problems to a stranger can be scary. How do you know if you should go and seek therapy? What do you need to know, and what’s the evidence for whether it will...
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Kids and the COVID Vaccine: Everything You Need to Know
Now that children are back in school, they could be bringing home COVID-19 along with their homework. A vaccine could change that. Alok and Sheena explain the vaccine development process and address key issues and questions that are...
PBS
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (with Dr. Z)
In this special episode, Dr. Zarka shows you what’s inside her “go bag,” a kit of survival supplies she keeps on hand at all times. In this episode you’ll find out how the horror genre can inspire real-world preparedness and take a look...
MarketWatch
Here's the magic mortgage rate that could get homeowners to sell again
The housing market has been frozen recently. With higher mortgage rates and inflated home prices, what’s the incentive to sell? Here's how low rates would need to get for people to start putting their houses on the market again.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Laila Taik - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Casablanca, Morocco
Laila Taik, an English teacher from Morocco and currently based in Brooklyn, New York, recounts her experience during the pandemic in 2020 when schools transitioned to remote learning. Facing challenges such as students' lack of access...
Financial Times
Rise and rise of buy now, pay later
FT Tech - The pandemic's lockdowns in the UK and other nations had a devastating effect on bricks and mortar retail. But, as consumers were forced to stay at home, online shopping surged - only to accelerate the already growing...
Financial Times
NZ housing: a canary in the coalmine?
FT Transact - Ultra-low interest rates and cheap finance have driven a global house price boom and in New Zealand the house price to income ratio has topped that of many OECD nations. But as interest rates rise and prices dip, the...
MarketWatch
Looking for a fully remote job? Here's what to keep in mind
While there's been a push from many companies to get employees back into the office, others have adopted a hybrid schedule. In this episode, we talk about the future of remote work and how it may fit into your job.
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Pandemic Perspectives: Beliefs and Values
MITIGATING THE MENACE: Professor Dunn talks about how drastic and systemic the impact of the COVID-1 pandemic was, how democracy does not necessarily give any guarantee for collective security and how it is not certain that any kind of...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Global Implications
MANUFACTURED TENSIONS: Professor Berry talks about how the pandemic has been intertwined with trade and international competition, which partly goes back to 2016 during the Trump administration's trade war with China which continued to...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Trust
NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS: Professor Daston talks about how being confronted with two crises of global dimensions: the COVID-19 pandemic and global climate change, led to an international governance structure and collaboration of scientific...
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Pandemic Perspectives: The Nature of Research
SCIENCE, ONGOING: Professor Barwich talks about how the pandemic has highlighted the need to teach people science as a process as well as the actual concepts of science to increase democratic participation and how the pandemic showed the...
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Pandemic Perspectives: The Importance of Communication
VITAL ENGAGEMENT: Dr Holt talks about how the greatest lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that to battle a pandemic the public must feel that they have a buy-in to the process that gives rise to the decisions to wear masks, take...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Moral Implications, Part 2
ALL TOO FAMILIAR: Professor Yamey talks about how the system of sharing vaccines which had been created with incentives to not hoard of vaccines did not work at all through a lack of genuine international health cooperation and his...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Moral Implications, Part 1
A SOBERING ANALYSIS: Professor Frank talks about how the number of people touched by symptoms of mental illness dramatically increased during the pandemic, the increased awareness of the usefulness of mental health support for people...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Links to Climate Change
UNAVOIDABLE CONNECTEDNESS: Professor Kondrashov talks about the need to do more basic research which can only be done with sufficient government funding which may be negatively impacted by the pandemic, how the pandemic has highlighted...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Lessons from History
HISTORICAL PARALLELS: Professor Ruiz talks about the haunting parallels between the spread of the plague in 14th-century Europe and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, including how more poor people died from the plague...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Expertise
IDENTIFYING EXPERTISE: Professor Frazer talks about how the pandemic has given a new urgency to the question who has legitimacy to rule over others as the pandemic has shown us how much we rely on expertise to survive and has created a...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Education
A NECESSARY TRANSFORMATION: Professor Celenza talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a necessary transformation in higher education which includes the need to share trustworthy, transparent expertise with a broad audience...
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Pandemic Perspectives: Biology
CONFRONTING FALLIBILITY: Dr Hie talks about how his hope is that the general public has a better appreciation of the ongoing process of scientific research, including uncertainty and fallibility, and the need for scientific research more...
PBS
Economic Lessons from Past Pandemics
It's a weird time to be alive. A pandemic is sweeping the world and life as we know it has gone through a seismic shift in a matter of weeks. But this isn't the first time humans have encountered an epidemic. Today, Danielle (from the...
All Ears English
1895 - Are You Quiet Quitting?
In today's episode, Lindsay and Aubrey talk about the cultural phenomenon happening in the U.S. and the world today of quiet quitting. Why is this happening now and are you participating in this trend? Let's debate and discuss this in...
The Guardian
From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis
Pastor Mick Fleming has devoted all of his time in this lockdown to supporting the poorest communities in Burnley. But his life hasn’t always been this way. He tells us how he swapped a life of crime for delivering food parcels seven...