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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...type of carbon (from a bamboo sliver) was found by Edison to give the best performance, and indeed, there is a lit bulb in the headquarters of General Electric which claims to be the only survivor still working continuously since it was first lit well over a century ago! Later, however, screening a range of other candidate materials showed that a very high melting metal,...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...types are brought under the cap – in some cases resulting in single parents and couples with only two children being affected. Secondly, it reduces the inequality between Londoners and those living in lower rent regions. Until now London has been disproportionately affected, but under the new regime affected households in the North East—the region with the lowest...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...type you make up yourself. Response yes, interesting] [Black background text, purple speech bubble saying thinking of trip to greece. Asks if any interest. Answer is absolutely] Many people find time in their day to ‘check their messages’ when they pick up their phone, read incoming messages and send messages, often to multiple threads. I call this device attending....
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How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...type of death we expect...The news of deaths related to COVID-19 both in the UK and globally is our current daily reality. You may even be reading them with your morning coffee and afternoon tea. This article is one of them. The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought death to the forefront, challenging societal ideas of what a good death is and the funerary norms we expect...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...types”. Above all, he is under medical supervision – he presents his doctor in person on the Today show who verifies that he is “undetectable”. HIV stigma presents those of us involved in public health with a dilemma. Stigma serves to perpetuate highly normative yet highly desirable (in public health terms) behaviours and attitudes: personal responsibility,...
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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...type of magnetic scan. The cylindrical tube of an MRI scanner houses a very powerful electro-magnet. A typical research scanner (such as the FMRIB Centre scanner) has a field strength of 3 teslas (T), about 50,000 times greater than the Earth’s field. The magnetic field inside the scanner affects the magnetic nuclei of atoms. Normally atomic nuclei are randomly oriented...
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Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...type of partnership people were in during lockdown with two-thirds of people not living with a partner perceiving a decline in their sexual frequency. In contrast, the people most likely to have had sex were those in a steady relationship who were living with their partner (81%), which perhaps isn’t all that surprising as COVID restrictions prevented people who...
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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...type, barely able to power itself by nuclear fusion. Proxima, the nearest star beyond the solar system (4.24 light years away), where recently a single planet was discovered, has 12% of the sun’s mass and is an ordinary (not ultracool) red dwarf. Telling transits In 2010, a group of scientists began monitoring the closest dwarf stars using a robotic telescope in Chile...
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