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What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...based on goals that include the environment and wellbeing, may have more space to establish themselves. Examples include the Genuine Progress Indicator and Gross National Happiness. The next four years will be challenging. Environmentalists will need to be vociferous in raising concerns with the US government. The uncertainties of a Trump presidency call for a proactive...
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What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...causes immense harm to individuals and families up and down the country, and taxes should rise to account for this damage. Yet even on narrowly economic grounds, cuts to duty represent a false economy. Read the full IAS report on which this article is based This article was originally published by the LSE British Politics & Policy blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
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Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?

...based on their mass-to-charge ratio) in a special mode. It admitted plume material directly into the instrument’s detection chamber to avoid the possibility of hydrogen being generated by plume-water reacting with the metallic components of the instrument itself. The astrobiology Hydrogen is of immense significance, because its presence along with hot water and rock...
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French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?
Society, Politics & Law

French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?

...based on exit polls, even as they appeared to confirm the gap between Macron and Le Pen, and again Fillon and Mélenchon. This is the downside of Mélenchonite. After the fever reaches its high point, it inevitably leads to disappointment, not to say depression. In 2012, having thought he might come third, Mélenchon slipped to fourth, and by a distance. In the last...
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What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...based at French ferry ports in order to carry out passport checks; a similar rule applies for the Channel Tunnel. In effect, this system means the UK border authorities can filter out travellers without proper documentation, thereby reducing the number of people able to claim asylum upon landing on British soil. That is a big advantage as the French authorities may...
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Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...based media literacy. As I detailed in my book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, too many students I met were being told that Wikipedia was untrustworthy and were, instead, being encouraged to do research. As a result, the message that many had taken home was to turn to Google and use whatever came up first. They heard that Google was trustworthy...
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Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...based on Dunning & Krueger’s initial findings support the idea that people of both high and low ability are poor at estimating their own competence. It is unclear to what extent government ministers are aware of the limitations of their own ability to understand the full implications of Brexit. As I explained in my first article, by selectively ignoring expert advice...
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Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...base. The first answer came from MSF’s field research webpage, which states that it “has published articles in over 100 peer-reviewed journals and they have often changed clinical practice and been used for humanitarian advocacy”. Javid Abdelmoneim, chair of trustees at MSF-UK, gave me the example of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). “We've done research...
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