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What is sleep paralysis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is sleep paralysis?

...based on rare cases where the paralysis fails – and patients physically act out the contents of their dreams. A team of Japanese researchers were recently able to induce episodes of sleep paralysis by systematically depriving participants of REM sleep. They found that if they interrupted enough periods of REM, the sleepers would eventually enter sudden-onset REM...
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Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...based upon information from two anonymous UK government officials, hardly a recipe for journalistic credibility. Some other egregious elements of unreality in Homeland were iterated the other week in a letter written by street artists explaining why they chose to “hack” episode two by spray painting “Homeland is racist” in Arabic on the set’s walls. Among their...
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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...base estimates for the probabilities of an adverse outcome in a hospital were any of the medical staff actually trying to harm the patients. It is an experiment which cannot be run. One cannot simply let a known murderer loose among the high dependency units to see how many patients are harmed. In the 2010 Pakistan cricket case, which involved spot betting on step-over...
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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...based on data which revealed that 66 of the 152 council areas with responsibility for schools would have more primary-age pupils than places for them in 2016-17, rising to 85 areas in 2017-18 and 94 areas in 2018-19. The government response to the accountability gap – which has already led to issues such as the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham – has been to implement...
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What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...based on the sequences of bacteria present and the resistance genes they carried in samples taken before treatment. The researchers also showed that treating with one antibiotic can dial up resistance to seemingly unrelated antibiotics. Dantas said this surprising finding makes sense because they found the majority of these microbes were resistant to multiple drugs,...
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How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?

...based on party affiliation if they voted by rejection, rather than by choice. Respondents also took less time to make their decision in the choice condition versus the rejection condition. Revisiting an old favorite We reached these results by revisiting a classic study known as the “Asian disease problem.” The Asian disease problem was first proposed by the...
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Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?

...based on the requirement of complying with the object and purpose of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and implementing legal obligations in good faith, it has an obligation to do so under its own domestic law. The executive order cannot displace domestic legal obligations. So those who, with great difficulty, manage to reach the US will have to have their asylum claims...
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...trustworthy bridges when one cannot trust just any crook, neighbor, or politician, even when multiplexity brought the spheres of organized crime together. This article is based on the paper Trust Thy Crooked Neighbor: Multiplexity in Chicago Organized Crime Networks in American Sociological Review and was originally published under a CC-BY-NC licence by the LSE USAPP Blog...
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