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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...world, I do not want men to grope me while going to school, I do not want men to tell me what to do at offices, I do not want my parents to give me off in a wedding. In late July of 2015, a politician in Kerala proposed a ban on women wearing jeans. Preetha was outraged. She started talking about it on Facebook, organizing an opposition. And then the trolls came, piling...
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Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...worlds of those who, half a millennium later, inhabit the borders of animality and the margins of humanness. [Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Dutch engraving, c. 17th century.] Living as an ox for seven years: Nebuchadnezzar Feijó embarked on an exploration of people who are more, or other, than human – and how such...
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The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...world where a first-world economy shares an extensive land border with the developing world. Europe, Britain and Australia are all insulated by moats which are much easier to control and harder to traverse. When people try to cross, they are easy to apprehend and send back to Turkey, Calais or Nauru. Since 1970, millions have crossed the US-Mexico border in search of a...
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How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...World Health Organisation, in March 2020 the UK Government introduced measures designed to delay the transmission of the coronavirus. Self-isolation may lead to increased sedation, and further lack of physical, social and cognitive activity, which may not only prompt but more worryingly speed up the overall age-related decline.No matter how effective these measures can be...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...world. This is especially true in emerging economies, where they account for over half of medium-sized firms in the manufacturing sector. In particular, dynastic family firms – that is, where the founding family owns a controlling share and have appointed a second-generation (or later) family member as the CEO – account for a quarter of these firms. Since supporting...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...world, but rather the emergence of other empires that might have been worse. The presentation includes a quote from Sathnam Sanghera, which discusses the nostalgic, often romantic, manner in which colonisation is viewed in Great Britain. This chimes with the cited YouGov poll of 2020, which found that: More than 30% of British people were proud of the Empire 1/3 people in...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...world and simulating what happens when we fiddle around with them: how much rainfall, the flow of rivers, that type of thing. It’s a way of simplifying the chaos of the physical world, in a computer so that we can try to predict what might happen in the real world. You can run simulations thousands of times, each with very subtle changes to see what happens. When Jim...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...world and it does go back to childhood and I can remember the usual thing of being… hankering after a stickleback from a stream, that kind of stuff. But the seminal event like so many people, was Life On Earth. I watched the series, I had the book, I did… when we had to talks at school about animals I researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that....
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