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Election days: 1910 - Asquith rejects foreign interference
History & The Arts

Election days: 1910 - Asquith rejects foreign interference

...history. (Loud cheers) "There is one feature which I notice for a moment, and I notice it to deprecate it, in some of the criticisms which are now being pressed upon our electoral struggle and which, I think, is new and I hope will not be repeated. I speak now not as a party man. I should like, if I could, to speak in the same sense of both parties, and, indeed, of all...
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Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?

...not be born was it not for cloning? [The Conversation]People should be respected as people regardless of the biological derivation history of their embryos. We should repeal the UK legislation against human cloning and think very carefully about whether, how and why we should replace it. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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How do natural disasters affect mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How do natural disasters affect mental health?

...history. Six months after the disaster, many residents are still without access to power. “Such prolonged darkness is insidious to community mental health,” says Oxiris Barbot, First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Barbot visited the island as a relief worker two months after the disaster and found nearly everyone she...
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The German language zone
Languages

The German language zone

...history of Germany in the period from 1949 to 1999. The link leads to two web pages about the Reichstag in Berlin Download the Architecture:1 tasks and ideas pdf Architecture:2 Reichstag The German language website berlin.de provides a lot of information on a wide range of topics relating to Berlin. We've chosen a chronology of the German Reichstag in Berlin. Download the...
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The Dog of Alcibiades
History & The Arts

The Dog of Alcibiades

...history has passed on include the one that he ‘profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries’, a cult which guaranteed its initiates eternal life, and that he had smashed statues of the gods. When the whispering against him in Athens became too threatening, he went over to Athens’ enemy, Sparta, and when that didn’t go entirely to plan – allegedly because he made the wife...
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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...histories, structures, and discourses. Disability knowledge and meaning are not then to be taken as an all-encompassing and accurate reflection of the experience of it. Rather, disability should be taken as a social, cultural and discursive representation of it that is actively mobilized and ever reforming in language use. How we talk about disability, does not so much...
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Creativity and artificial intelligence
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Creativity and artificial intelligence

...history of artistic creativity suggests rather that it simply means our ambitions and experiments in this field will undergo various changes. The impact that the invention of photography had on fine art is a useful analogy here. Pictorial creativity didn’t cease in the mid-19th century when Fox Talbot and Daguerre pioneered photography. But it did change – and change...
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Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context
Nature & Environment

Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

...history of flooding in the region and the threat of future surges that overwhelm our current defences. The Isle of Sheppey The Environment Agency's attitude towards shoreline management and the devastating consequences for locals. Hold the Line Policy Changing policy on the Isle of Sheppey. When is it cost-effective to defend and when is it more effective to retreat? What...
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