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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...based on the performances at those Games and have set a target of between 3-7 medals from around 50 athletes who will be competing. But where will these medals come from?[A gold medal from the 2022 Winter Olympics 2022.] Bobsleigh events always attract attention and in these Games Greg Rutherford, the 2012 Olympic Long Jump champion, will be attempting to become the first...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...based on the available evidence it is fair to conclude that there was no uniform enthusiasm for war in 1914. Ultimately, pre-war divisions were at best papered-over by this brief unifying experience. When faced by years of war and hardship, cracks began to appear, and governments were soon preoccupied, as they had been before the war, with trying to contain and manage...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...Based on the evidence so far there will be more homeless households for whom local authorities have to take responsibility and higher costs relating to both child and adult social care. Other welfare changes announced in the budget will offset some of the effects of reducing the welfare cap, often because households on welfare, whether or not affected by the cap, will...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...based conversations to which they appear to be devoting their full attention – and which might most closely resemble face-to-face encounters. For some people, these may stand out from their more typical messaging practices: as Naomi explained to me, her focused encounter with a bereaved friend is markedly different from her other interactions; she gives her full...
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How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Society, Politics & Law

How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials

...based upon mock juror simulations, and may not necessarily extend to a real courtroom. But there are two ways juror research could go forward. First, the legal system could allow decision scientists access to the deliberation room, so that the juror decision process can be analysed. Second, more interdisciplinary research between lawyers and decision scientists should...
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Roman cookery
History & The Arts

Roman cookery

...base to make it very efficient for creating pastes. The Testun is a Roman oven, much like an upturned casserole dish with a hole in the top. There is also a surrounding ledge on which coals were burned making it a very efficient cooking device. [Sally Grainger and Antonio Carluccio] Much of what we know of Roman cooking comes from a cookery book written by Apicius in...
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What is The Social Contract?
History & The Arts

What is The Social Contract?

...bases for obligation. Now, let’s shift the terrain slightly, by asking what makes it the case that I should obey the government? (This is a version of the question – what makes government legitimate?) Obviously, there can be three answers to that question: our obligation to obey the government might be: a natural obligation a contractual obligation, or might not exist...
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Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?
Education & Development

Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?

...based on an online survey of 1,688 students in Years 5 to 10, provides data on how many bullied students actually do seek help – and from whom. Of the 631 students who reported that they had been bullied at one time or another at school, over half (53%) said they sought help from other students in the first instance. Slightly fewer (51%) went to their parents. But what...
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