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| | | | Picture this: The world's largest diamond shimmers behind bulletproof glass in an opulent gallery. A rogue ballerina silently unfolds herself from the bottom half of a cleaning cart. With a dazzling series of backflips and handstands, she nimbly outsmarts the lasers that crisscross the gallery. She cuts the glass, swipes the diamond, and breezes out through the front door disguised as a foreign dignitary. She gets into a waiting Bentley with George Clooney posing as her chauffeur, and glides off into the night. This is how we tend to imagine heists – because that's how Hollywood tells us they play out. But if we've learnt anything this week it's that the reality of museum robberies is far less glamorous. The Louvre in Paris was robbed by a gang who entered through a window, smashed display cases, and threatened guards with power tools. They ran away and dropped a priceless crown in the street as they went. Security expert Carmen Jordá Sanz says that real-life museum break-ins play out far more like the Louvre heist than any fantasy involving disaffected acrobats and lasers. It's about straightforward reconnaissance, robust planning and brute force. Even before the theft, the artefacts stolen from the Louvre had a chequered past. As some of the few crown jewels to survive the French Revolution, they were significantly expanded under Napoleon, but then nearly sold off under the Third Republic before being put on display. Find out more about them here. While multi-million-euro jewel heists may capture the public interest, most people are more concerned with finding ways to save in the face of inflation and a cost of living crisis. Economic woes are driving us towards ever-cheaper online shopping platforms, but it's not just the economy that explains their stratospheric popularity – they also have sophisticated, powerful AI systems that are designed to keep us hooked. |  | Alex Minshall Editor, Valencia | |  Carmen Jordá Sanz, Universidad Camilo José Cela The jewel theft in Paris was carried out using simple tools. | | |  Laura O'Brien, Northumbria University, Newcastle Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre's security problems, rather than on the jewels themselves. | |  Ghassan Paul Yacoub, EDHEC Business School; Loïc Plé, IÉSEG School of Management The success of e-commerce platforms Temu and Shein is based on highly effective marketing tools. Artificial intelligence has become a major lever for building customer loyalty. |  Léonie de Jonge, University of Tübingen; Esmee Bakker, University of Tübingen Prime Minister Dick Schoof called fresh elections following the first collapse of his government, which would go on to fall a second time within a few months. | |  Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE University; California State University San Marcos 80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of Orwell's predictions have come true. |  Sofía Rendo González, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Justo Arines, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Nery García Porta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Poor quality contact lenses can cause painful, serious injuries and infections. | |  Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po A study titled "Defending and promoting academic freedom" that was conducted for a French higher education and research organisation discusses four areas for improvement of this crucial effort. | | | | | -
Gail McElroy, Trinity College Dublin Catherine Connolly has a significant leader over Heather Humphreys in the polls but these elections are notoriously unpredictable. -
Alexandra Delgado Jiménez, Universidad Nebrija People need to feel they are part of the solution, not the problem. -
Simonetta Di Pippo, Bocconi University Valuable lunar resources like water ice are finite and some treaties don't address the problem. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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