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After Manchester: What are the challenges for security services?
Society, Politics & Law

After Manchester: What are the challenges for security services?

...out by a single individual; he added that the focus of the investigation was to establish whether the individual was acting alone or as part of a network. Hopkins said: The attacker, I can confirm, died at The Arena. We believe the attacker was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated causing this atrocity. A 23-year-old man has since been arrested in...
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Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...out a more complete, comprehensive, or gap-less review than had previously been developed. Although some might see a financial assessment of nature as fundamentally missing the point, environmental economists would contend that they are actually filling a knowledge gap. By providing a value it alters how the environment is considered – it changes the game. Presenting an...
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Catalonia: What happens now?
Society, Politics & Law

Catalonia: What happens now?

...out for in the run up to the election. Rajoy must also be carrying out a risk assessment. A clear majority for pro-independence parties in December would perhaps make his position untenable. Alternatively, his authority will be reinforced should those parties opposed to independence emerge victorious. Now ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont’s centre-right Catalan...
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Young people are not apathetic
Society, Politics & Law

Young people are not apathetic

...out and the people sold out through huge cuts to the public purse through ever worsening austerity measures. 2011 was a big year for global outcries of discontent with the way the world currently works. From the urban unrest in the UK after the killing of Mark Duggan, through to protest movements such as the Occupy movement in New York and London and many more cities -...
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Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...out how to amplify the sounds. Castaway on: 24th July, 1981 Listen to Carl Sagan on Desert Island Discs How will we make contact with alien intelligence? Susan Blackmore [Susan Blackmore] Susan Blackmore Susan Blackmore is a psychologist. She's explored the idea of consicousness and the sense of self. Earlier in her career, she was a leading thinker in the field of...
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Carbonitriding / carburising
Science, Maths & Technology

Carbonitriding / carburising

...out in a batch, automatic or semi-automatic salt baths heated by gas, oil or electricity. Brazing and carburising can sometimes be done simultaneously. Temperatures usually 845–955°C. Salt is usually a cyanide-chloride-carbonate mixture and is highly toxic. Cyanide salts also introduce a small amount of nitrogen into the surface of the component. Salt baths are...
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Breaking bad: The science of flatulence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Breaking bad: The science of flatulence

...out more about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses [LePetoman] Joseph Pujol, "Le Petomane", a late 19th Century French music hall artist whose act consisted of musically breaking wind. Is it time for a post about drugs and farting? Of course it's time for a post about drugs and farting. Drugs do many, many things. Some of these we want, others not so much....
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Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem

...out about The Open University's Law courses. After years of consultations and reports, the Scottish government is proposing to conduct a pilot to test out running rape trials with just a judge – and no jury. The conviction rate in Scotland for rape and attempted rate is woefully low. Only 51% of trials lead to a conviction, which is simply not acceptable in a modern...
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