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The Confluence Journal - an international journal of politics, economics and current affairs
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist calls research slow, collective work and describes how his spin-glass mathematics was applied to memory in the brain.
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25 articles and interviews on housing, betting bans, emergency powers, black markets, AI, and much more.
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The Shirt Off Their Backs
With betting sponsors banned from the front of Premier League shirts, clubs face an £80 million shortfall because sponsors overpaid by around 38 per cent.
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The Woman Who Wasted My Time
An eight-hour bus ride beside a 78-year-old stranger who marvelled at every sunset leads a writer to argue that optimising your time can leave you under-lived.
Issue 3
Why Your Phone Signal Won a Nobel Prize
A Nobel prize winner describes how his team ran a $19.8 billion spectrum auction and why changing a market's rules changes what people do.
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A journal written and edited by students.
The Confluence is a student-run journal on current affairs and the social sciences, covering politics, economics, philosophy, and more. Written by students from around the world, its name comes from a confluence, where rivers meet, much like the subjects and perspectives that come together in our articles.
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