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How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...health considerations and, most importantly, the presence or absence of dehydration. I would add that body composition would also likely play a key role; for the same body weight, the individual with a greater percentage of body fat has a greater on-board storage of calories. Also, a lower muscle mass would generally be associated with reduced caloric consumption. This by...
What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...health workers running routine diagnostics had detected antibodies against Zika virus in a wide variety of places in tropical Africa and South-East Asia, which indicated that quite a lot of people had encountered Zika at some point in their lives. But there was no suggestion that the virus was particularly common or going anywhere fast. In 2007 Zika broke out of its...
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...health risks well enough to make their own decisions about insurance. To take away the power of individuals to control their own destiny is viewed as anti-American by so much of this country. You are your own master. Children are indoctrinated into this cultural logic early, even as their parents restrict their mobility and limit their access to social situations. But...
Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...health”. Translators are very much divided when it comes to whether Trump’s controversial rhetoric should be translated warts and all, or toned down and rendered respectable. Indeed, while some believe that his inflammatory language should be neutralised and the style smoothed out, others are convinced that translators should translate Trump exactly as he speaks....
Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...health – would be a lot better today but for those fraudsters of more than 100 years ago. “If battery power worked for buses then other vehicles might have followed suit”, says Hamer. “In the grand scheme of things, the failure of an electric bus may seem trivial, but it led ultimately to the failure of electric delivery vehicles. The result was a resounding...
Investment casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Investment casting

...health hazards associated with the process. The “block mould process” is often a more economical process for light castings. Moulds consist of several hundred small components, and are centrifugally cast. Materials: Almost all metals and alloys can be investment cast, but the process is best suited to those materials that are difficult to die cast, forge or machine....
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...health, security, food, water etc lay in the hand of scientists and this was thus the most important language. His challenge was taken up by the renowned literary critic, F.R Leavis, and an acrimonious debate ensued which has re-emerged periodically in letter pages of the quality press until the present day. What are ‘disciplines’? The term discipline implies both the...
Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...the architect of post-war housing failure ignores the deep concern for human comfort and health that underpinned his work. The Modernist architects
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