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Simon Cooper

Simon Cooper

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Sep 9, 2026

78:35
What evidence is there that physical activity improves children's and young people's cognitive function?
78:44
Yeah, so if we just start by just talking about what we mean by cognitive function.
78:50
So cognitive function is essentially our ability to think.
78:54
So our ability to take in information, to process that information, and then to remember it and make decisions off the back of that information.
79:03
So if we think about that in schools, that's going to be really important for our children and young people when it comes to their learning.
79:12
And one of the things that we're really interested in with our research is how physical activity can affect that cognitive function.
79:21
And we've shown and others have shown that generally if you do some physical activity, we can maybe talk about what that physical activity might be in a minute, but some form of physical activity has a small positive effect on cognitive function.
80:00
Explain a bit better how that helps them learn better, because what's the difference between a child who maybe just goes home and doesn't do any activity, physical activity, and the other who is regular in that? How does that help them with their learning ability, like when they're at school or just generally in life?
25:11
And to get, you know, better, more reliable supply and supply chain sort of into the mix of design.
25:16
Yeah, I think we would all agree.
25:18
And it really kind of started from the safety lens, but the less sort of detailed complex high risk work that happens at a construction site, the better.
25:32
And so that then takes you to pre-construction or off-site manufacturing.
25:38
You know, we had some good early success with that.
25:40
We worked with yourselves and others.
25:42
Rather than having generators brought to site and put inside a room and then everything wrapped around them, we just I've been built offsite and craned into location.

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43:22
But coaching the whole industry to be able to get to that point, I think technology is starting to help us in trying to achieve it and i think it will come where we should be cheaper and the price should be going backwards and our margins should be higher and we're faster like it's there you can see it it's just trying to trying to clutch it it can be done i mean
28:17
Yeah
28:17
... definitely.
28:18
I mean, the big change, you know, fly-fishing used to be generally associated with, as you say, tweed-dressed gentlemen doing salmon-fishing.
28:25
But in the sort of from the mid-'60s, there was this huge boom in stillwater trout fisheries.
28:32
And so I would say most...
28:34
So aside from the people who've just seen it on TV and decided, "That's what I want to try," most people will say to me, "Well, do you know, when I was a boy or a girl, when I was growing up, my uncle, my father, my grandfather took me fishing, and I've always wanted to get back into it."

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35:41
Lovely.
35:41
Yeah.
13:58
Do you think that that is one of the attractions of it? Or do you think that actually, do you think that it flattens the advantages that the rich countries and the rich clubs have when you have that many people, many countries competing?
14:12
Yeah, so in a national team, on the whole, you can't buy players.
14:16
I mean, a country like Qatar tends to nationalize players.
14:20
I think the majority of that team were born outside Qatar.
14:22
Some were guys who'd come to play in the Qatari League.
14:25
But mostly, you're stuck with the national team you have.
14:29
So that means that, you know, if you're Morocco... you could have some very good players because you don't have to buy them.

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24:14
Are they bringing the nation together or are they insufficiently loyal? What's your read on it at the moment?
20:05
Yeah, yeah
20:06
... thing.
20:06
Um, they...
20:08
But, and so the- so this flooding was great.
20:11
And of course, uh, and then once you've done that, you had this fantastic meadow grass that was great for hay.
20:17
And you could also use the flooding again to, instead of just getting one crop of hay, you could get two or three of very high quality hay, which you could then feed your sheep in the winter.
20:27
[laughs] So it was this circular economy.
24:19
But obviously up in the chalk streams it's pretty common practice.
9:06
But yeah, walk us through that JV with Ivanhoe and how has everything progressed and what have you found and what does that exploration tenor look like?
9:15
Yeah, so we've been incredibly fortunate to bring both Ivanhoe and First Quantum into Kazakhstan and have the privilege of working alongside both of those groups under alliances.
9:27
On the Ivanhoe JV specifically, well, both of the JVs have a focal point in that sediment-hosted copper basin area.
9:35
The reason that, you know, that we're there under partnership with those groups is, again, I would argue it's probably, there's only very few set hosted copper basins globally that matter.
9:45
And Kazakhstan just happens to be one of three that are in that top three bracket.
9:51
So that's been the focal point.
9:52
With Ivanhoe, we've expanded the amount of ground that we have under that JV since we last spoke.

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15:31
And the ongoing question is, OK, what does that liquidity event look like? What is it going to take for Palace Resources to bring something public to the market to allow other people to participate in this company? Is it one big, you know, here's the entire Palace Resources portfolio within one equity? Or is it something like where you can piecemeal some of these JVs and projects and maybe bring maybe one, two, or even potentially three type of opportunities and equities into the market? What's that internal dialogue right now with the company as far as going public?

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