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The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland
Society, Politics & Law

The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland

...economy of a Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy 23(9):1302-1310. Ottaviano, G., J. Pessoa, T. Sampson and J. Van Reenen (2014) ‘The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU’, Centre for Economic Performance Policy Analysis. Vertovec, S. (2011). Conceiving and researching transnationalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (2) 1999:447-467. Read more articles like this...
Glastonbury and the festival
History & The Arts

Glastonbury and the festival

...Lecturer in Religious Studies, gives an overview of the goddess worship that takes place in Glastonbury town, including a conference, a goddess temple, a gift shop and even a procession where revellers gather to make a public statement of their devotion to the goddess. Transcript [Glastonbury hippies sign] Image taken by Dr Marion Bowman in Glastonbury during the 70s....
Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...public) think and decide about money. xDelia is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme... Money and Emotions The xDelia project is a European Commission funded research programme being conducted by The Open University and other partners to research the link between emotions and financial decisions. The aim is to devise new ways to bolster...
Atom Bomb in Popular Culture
History & The Arts

Atom Bomb in Popular Culture

...end. Mad About A Bomb By the end of the 1950s, public opinion about the bomb had started to shift. A Bomb Under Reagan By the 1970s the Cold War tensions were beginning to thaw, as people grew less worried about nuclear catastrophe than about the Vietnam War. A Bomb On The Loose By the 1980s the Soviet Union had spent decades pouring money into weapons and foreign wars....
Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...public campaign with placards telling migrants in Hungarian that they should not come to Hungary to take Hungarian jobs, threaten Hungarian welfare and attack public safety. As a result, many residents of Hungary’s border territories live in fear that their lands and houses are on the brink of invasion. First came the Kosovars and now refugees and migrants from the...
Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
History & The Arts

Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical

...publication of this work, the most acute and universally learned Mr. Edmund Halley not only assisted me with his pains in correcting the press and taking care of the schemes, but it was to his solicitations that its becoming public is owing; for when he had obtained of me my demonstrations of the figure of the celestial orbits, he continually pressed me to communicate the...
Could Donald Trump use his pardons to derail the Russian investigation?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Donald Trump use his pardons to derail the Russian investigation?

...public outcry against what was perceived to be an arrogant interference with the legal process. Ford’s action may have contributed to his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against Jimmy Carter. And Bush’s pardon of Weinberger prompted accusations that he was engaging in a cover-up. Critics said that his action demonstrated that “powerful people with powerful...
Here’s the truth about false accusations of sexual violence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Here’s the truth about false accusations of sexual violence

...public furore over sexual harassment, violence and abuse. Underlying the question is a persistent uncertainty about the credibility of victims – a concern with identifying what is true and what is false. As women speak out, some have been met with explicit counter accusations that their descriptions are untrue. Others have been served with a defamation case which has...