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Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...based on the hegemony of little nationalisms, the extent of empathy for ‘different’ others, or the counterfactual arguments capable of puncturing the myths promulgated by Trump, Farage and others. A second problem concerns time. The shock waves of Brexit are by no means over: the process is iterative rather than linear, with new ‘events’ disrupting the possibility...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...based on the most frequent words present in our chosen text. Before studying its output, it is worth remembering that by default Voyant excludes “stopwords”, the most common words in the English language, such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. This simple wordlist can act as a springboard for our analysis of the novel. We can, for example, compare the high...
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Brazing
Science, Maths & Technology

Brazing

...based alloys, with Zn, Cd or Al-Si systems Fluorine/boron compounds 600 - 1000˚C particularly with refractory oxides Design: Joint clearance is critical, depending on brazing materials, surface condition, degree of alloying and length of joint. Recommended joint clearances vary from interference fit to 0.6 mm. Lap joints are preferred to butt joints wherever possible....
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Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...based devices from the electromagnetic effect of the power cables trailing around your tree. Nevertheless, it would take a considerable volume of lights to create enough interference to seriously degrade your wi-fi network. In fact, you would have to be lighting up your tree like a small sun – which perhaps some of you are planning. Do consider downloading the wi-fi...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...based on tiny fragments of evidence, but he is considered by some to have laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. Certainly later Athenians (of the time of Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’) looked back to Solon as the founding figure of their radical experiment with people power. Herodotus records that Solon made a ten-year journey, undertaken after implementing...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...based on an anonymous online survey with 239 adults from 18 to 73 years old. The research used open as well as closed questions, which allowed participants to write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Unlike most prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had experienced Internet infidelity – either having engaged in it themselves...
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What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...based approaches. Patients could also avoid the stress associated with exposure therapies, and any side-effects resulting from those drugs. The original research is online at Nature Human Behaviour: Fear reduction without fear through reinforcement of neural activity that bypasses conscious exposure This article was originally published by Research at the University of...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?

...base of the marine food web. Transcript Additionally, rapid changes are taking place in levels of human-derived pollutants, such as plastics, now found in every river, beach and ocean in the world and noise levels due to busy shipping industry impacting marine animals’ ability to communicate or hear the signs of danger and thereby impacting their ecosystem. Transcript...
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