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What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?” The alcohol industry is, in some ways, like the glazier of Bastiat’s story. Global alcohol producers profit from harmful behaviour. And they, too, try to defend themselves with the promise of employment and income. Such appeals to the economic benefits of a thriving alcohol industry have become deafening in...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...become a term of abuse among young people (although the extent to which it carries homophobic intent is disputed), ‘special needs’ still carries a certain stigma, and so on. However, this misses an important point about the nature of language, and one which the Deliveroo dos-and-don’ts list helps illustrate. In advising its managers to use a word like ‘kit’, the...
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Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?

...becomes heated, reacts chemically, and escapes back up to the ocean via “hydrothermal vents”. These exist on the floor of the Earth’s oceans, too, where the chemically charged water supports a rich ecology of microbes and other, more complex, life forms – requiring no sunlight. The only missing evidence of water-rock chemical reactions in Enceladus was molecules...
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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...becoming increasingly competitive with other fuels – and that’s good news for the climate...[The sun rises behind an offshore wind farm] A building boom is underway offshore in Europe. Up to 400 giant wind turbines are due to be built off the northeast coast of the UK in what will be the world’s largest offshore wind development. Output from the Dogger Bank project...
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Does it snow on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does it snow on Mars?

...become unstable, because it becomes less dense below than above. This leads to rapid downdrafts of air, travelling at about 10 metres per second, which could carry ice crystals to the surface too quickly for them to “evaporate”. However, the snow layer would probably be thin and not last too long before it sublimes back into the atmosphere – where it could form new...
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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...becomes extremely problematic: As an interpreter, your job is to translate the words of a speaker exactly as they are, no matter how heinous and what an outrageous liar you find the speaker to be … You set aside all your personal emotions and become the speaker yourself. It’s a really tough thing, not being allowed to demonstrate your own judgement about what is right...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...becoming a National Park. In addition to skiing and snowboarding, the increasing popularity of activities such as hill walking, wildlife tourism and mountain biking has meant annual visitor numbers now reach around 1.5 million a year. The National Park features prominently in the advertising campaigns of the former Scottish Tourist Board ‘Visit Scotland’ and its...
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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...becomes one way parents can visually demonstrate how they are meeting these parenting demands. [Children at Jujutsu competition] Only 32% of parents feel they overshare on social media A cause of conflict Digital demonstrations of good parenting become increasingly complicated as children grow older. One example of this from our research focused on a family argument...
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