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The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...centre of unending roaring circles.’ on a picture of poppies] ‘They were prancing. The whole world round them was yelling and prancing round. They were the centre of unending roaring circles.’ One of the ways populations have always sought to make sense of momentous events is to write about them creatively. The armistice of November, 1918 has been represented many...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway

...children and adults in Norway. Skolebrod is a small cake with vanilla cream, powdered sugar and coconut. My special treat when I'm visiting Norway is skolebrød with afternoon coffee! Image: roboppy under Creative Commons license Lefse Lefse is a traditional soft, Norwegian flatbread made from potato, milk or cream and flour. It’s cooked on a griddle with special long...
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9/11: Reflections on political leadership
Society, Politics & Law

9/11: Reflections on political leadership

...Centre and the Pentagon, in events that changed the world forever. It raised questions not only about the United States’ foreign policy but also about its assumed dominance as the leading international superpower. Ten years on since 9/11, the political landscape is very different: the US has a different President in the form of Barack Obama, elected in 2008, while the...
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Perceptions of English literature
History & The Arts

Perceptions of English literature

...of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... How English is English literature? Can we still consider English literature English? What is English literature? Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. New voices During the wave of independence many writers from the de-colonised countries began to have their work published....
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Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...research team have discovered a way to hack into medical implants...[Surgery in a hospital] Well this one sounds like something from a science-fiction movie. A research team in Belgium has worked out how to hack into the communications used by an implanted medical device – that is a piece of technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device...
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The psychological benefits of multilingualism
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The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013). Language learning is fraught with ambiguity, particularly in situations where real communication needs to take place, and language learners who are not able to tolerate this kind of ambiguity can find it very challenging to cope,...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...research, such as the study of developmental processes and diseases of many kinds. We are, at minimum, several steps and several years away from being able to create fully grown human-animal chimeras. But worries over the ethics of chimera research have been with us since the beginning of the 21st century. Ethicists have begun to map the space of difficult moral questions...
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Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...researchers in the US has noted that the accuracy of such “mind reading” technology is improving. There are various methods of detecting false statements or concealed knowledge, which vary greatly. For example, traditional “lie detection” relies on measuring physiological reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation and skin sweat response to...
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