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Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...based solely on local norms and contexts. To help provide a preliminary sense of the motivations and continued engagement of marchers, we examined a sample of the ~40,000 tweets posted over two months. The analysis continues. In the coming month, we are launching a separate survey to better understand a group social movement scholars are sometimes less inclined to study:...
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Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...based approach of the proposal misdiagnoses the problem of fleet performance in the UK, as it is the low-capital, small-scale fleet that is currently suffering. A quota market would increase the market power of the large actors and result in small-scale fishers leaving the industry in large numbers (as has been the case with individual transferable quotas used elsewhere)....
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How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?

...based CTBT Organisation is establishing an International Monitoring System with over 50 seismic monitoring stations to detect nuclear tests anywhere on Earth. This system doesn’t just use seismometers. Infrasound instruments listen for very low frequency sound waves, inaudible to the human ear, generated by potential nuclear explosions in the atmosphere; hydroacoustic...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...for entrepreneurship are not as large. And those firms that are born are more likely to lack ambition, as they aim to be acquired rather than conquer the world. This article, originally published by the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC licence, is based on the authors’ paper Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2017...
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How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?

...based on payments and receipts for the previous year). Here, using ONS figures we take a look at how the UK contribution has changed over the past seven years UK contributions to the EU budget, 2010 to 2016 Notes Clarification: This article was updated to clarify that some of the money which is credited to the UK government by the EU is then distributed to the private...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...base in the downturn that followed, UK public debt has reached 85.8% of GDP. That’s perilously close to the 90% of GDP, above which public debt can become a serious constraint on the economy’s future growth, according to influential economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Beg, Print or Borrow Unusually, though, other economists have stepped in to dispel this...
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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection
Society, Politics & Law

The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection

...based conflict from across Scotland, it seeks to provide a resource that can be used by generations of trade union members, labour movement activists, researchers and academics. Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022 [the banner used for the women and workplace struggles series of articles. Silhouettes of women holding coloured banners.] [Red clydeside...
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Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific

...based on the recent paper by Kulp and Strauss (2019). References Edwards, T. (2017) Future of the Sea: Current and Future Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the UK, FORESIGHT, Government Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Accessed 25th January 2020...
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