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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...intelligence collaboration. Strange since, if the Snowden revelations are to be believed, it’s hard to see how the two countries' surveillance efforts could be any closer entwined. Note to David Cameron In light of all the politicking/electioneering, I do have a question or two for Mr Cameron and perhaps a suggestion or two for the mainstream media hacks who actually...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...intelligence of the black community. So normalised was the belief that black people were stupid and incapable of looking after themselves and would continue to need, in the words of slave-owner Edward Long, 'white guidance to civilise them', that it was even part of the anti-slavery discourse. A poem supporting the abolition of slavery used the term ‘nigger’ and has a...
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The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...intelligence, also increase as a consequence of multilingual translating experiences and exposure to different language and cultural environments. You might be interested to know that language learners with higher levels of ambiguity tolerance and emotional intelligence are particularly well-suited to the job of a translator, as they are more likely to enjoy being...
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Darwin and Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin and Evolution

...of artificial breeding of pigeons shed light on evolutionary processes. Dogs and breeding Dogs used to be bred for their ability to help humans. Now selective breeding accentuates physical features at the expense of ability to survive in the wild. Sparrows and breeding How differences in 'badge' sizes between males relates to success at finding food and rearing young....
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Beachbrains
Science, Maths & Technology

Beachbrains

...Intelligence System project of Intelligence Realm Inc. intends to create – at least a small – thinking beach. Based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) – the same technology as the basis of the much better known SETI1 project – the aim of the Artificial Intelligence System is to simulate the human brain, in real time. If their...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...intelligent life beyond Earth has that anthropocentric bias – we are essentially looking for extra-terrestrial intelligent life that is like ourselves. However, astrobiology is interested in life more broadly defined. This includes unicellular organisms, microbes, or simply chemical signs (complex molecules, proteins, or other structures that are the building blocks of...
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Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law
Society, Politics & Law

Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law

...and its shortcomings. Adoption and donor tracing Adoption lawyers and researchers of assisted conception discuss the rights of artificially-conceived and adopted children and their parents. Freedom of speech A current affairs journalist, a human rights lawyer and an academic debate issues around freedom of speech and to what extent the law should intervene to restrict it....
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...intelligence service, MI6, recruited some of the cleverest people they could find. Because so much of the recruitment was through personal connections or Oxford and Cambridge universities, they tended to be more upper class than the population at large. [Bletchley Park] Eventually, more than 10,000 code-breakers worked at Bletchley Park – where the gardens had been...
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