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How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us
Science, Maths & Technology

How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us

...paperwork for Greenwood sorted. And, as a reward, I got to see the first close-up photographs of our new family member, dubbed “Winchcombe”. It may look a bit like a broken barbecue briquette, but to me, it is absolutely beautiful.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...family. This cycle continues over an 11-month period until you finally get a break. Without emotional support and periods away from competitive football, burnout becomes almost inevitable. The psychological symptoms of burnout were identified by Hackney, Pearlman and Nowacki (1990) as increased anxiety, mood changes, loss of concentration and sleep disturbances. Emotional...
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Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...family ties and it is impossible to teach people how to live in freedom while in captivity. [View of HM Prison Dartmoor, a Category C men's prison located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor.] Princetown : HM Prison Dartmoor. Prisons are antiquated institutions, ill-suited to deal with people with complex social needs. The new bill, which had its first reading in the House of...
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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...families involved, as painful and permanent as my own experience of grief. And if that is not reason enough for concern, the RCP estimates that air pollution in the UK costs us £20 billion a year. Currently, the amount of air pollution produced and tolerated in Britain is limited by regulations imposed by Brussels. Red tape. Green tape. Unfreedom. According to the...
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Perseus: what’s in a name?
History & The Arts

Perseus: what’s in a name?

...family in Florence. [Perseus and Andromeda by Frederic, Lord Leighton] Fig 2 By contrast, more recent versions of Medusa have attempted to give her a more human spin: in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ poem, for example (part of The World’s Wife collection (1999)), the myth is used as a metaphor for a jealous woman who’s been betrayed by her lover. The romantic...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...family photos of the origami flowers she and her girlfriend have just made in an online class; Phil shares with his children a video of his walk on the beach. In contrast, only on some occasions do messaging app users engage in what I call focused encounters; that is, real-time messaging-based conversations to which they appear to be devoting their full attention – and...
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Roman cookery
History & The Arts

Roman cookery

...family. Apicius, however, gave only hints as to the amounts of each ingredient so Sally has developed her recipes through experimentation with the ingredients listed. The Romans took influences from all over the world, and their cooking was no different. Many of their recipes come from the Greeks – Libum for example. This would have been used by the Romans in...
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Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro

...families as well as organised events such as BiCon. ‘How do bisexual people live their lives? How do they ‘‘do’’ sex and relationships, parenting, and are for others? What networks and communities are important to bisexual people?’ (84). The apparent directness and, perhaps, obviousness of the research questions that lead into the chapter demonstrate the...
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