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Imagine an apartment that could be teleported across Europe. In Spain, its energy certificate might read D. In Germany, the same apartment could earn a C on a scale that runs to H. In Brussels, it might land on B, one of more than 15 subclasses. In the Netherlands, where the scale climbs to A+, it would look positively mediocre.
Same walls, same boiler, same physics, eight different letters.
This is not a thought experiment. It is how Europe has rated its buildings for two decades. Energy performance certificates or EPCs are used across most of Europe. Building energy ratings (BER) are issued…
A new pay gap study using the the National Health Service in England has good news for the LGB +; they are paid more.
NHS is government-controlled so there are not wide variations but they clearly pay more to people who disclose their sexual identity, while not having disclosed identity is specifically associated with a pay penalty.
NHS employees are paid in twelve 'bands' (or sub-bands) set by the government but the NHS Pay Review Board and cultural groups have input. The authors used the mid-point of the employee’s salary band (79 per cent women), adjusting for paid overtime hours, coupled…
You stub your toe on the bedpost. Before your brain even registers the pain, a word explodes from your mouth – sharp, loud and oddly satisfying.
Far from being a simple slip in manners, swearing is a reflex rooted deep in the structure of the human body, drawing on networks in the brain and autonomic nervous system that evolved to help us survive pain and shock.
Research shows that a well-placed expletive can dull pain, regulate the heart and help the body recover from stress. The occasional outburst, it seems, isn’t a moral failure – it’s a protective reflex wired into us.
The impulse to…
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Imagine an apartment that could be teleported across Europe. In Spain, its energy certificate might read D. In Germany, the same apartment could earn a C on a scale that runs to H. In Brussels, it might land on B, one of more than 15 subclasses.