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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...human impacts on one iconic group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common, which justifies the inclusion of diverse types within a single group. Although mammals evolved on land, a number of species have become adapted to spending part or all of their lives in water and it is...
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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...human rights, the respect for minorities.” Like the United States, Canada is made up of people from all over the world and Hussen says the country's strength comes from that diversity. “Unlike other countries that have been pulled apart because of differences of religion and ethnicity. Canada has somehow managed to a large extent to remain strong and united despite...
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Why were David Bowie's eyes two different colours?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why were David Bowie's eyes two different colours?

...humans) whereby each iris is a distinctly different colour, such as having one blue iris and the other brown. But this isn’t why Bowie’s eyes looked different. Instead, the unusual appearance of Bowie’s eyes were due to a condition called anisocoria. Anisocoria is a condition characterised by an unequal size in a person’s pupils. In Bowie’s case, his left pupil...
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What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...human activities such as small-scale gold mining. It persists in the environment, no level of exposure is safe and mercury poisoning is incurable. Most at risk are people who eat fish and shellfish that contain high concentrations of methylmercury (the organic form of mercury), and people regularly exposed to high levels of the element through their work. Contamination...
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Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...Human Condition 1961 publishes Between Past and Present April - stays in Jerusalem to cover Eichmann trial (pictured right) 1962 June - Eichmann hanged 1963 February-March - “Eichmann in Jersualem” published in five instalments in New Yorker, and denounced as anti-Semitic in New York Times; published a book entitled Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of...
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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...human diversity. Materialist and Marxist perspectives of disability studies – even though they are opposing mainstream viewpoints – have also appeared reluctant to study contemporary discourse about disability. This reluctance in part relates to much broader contested issues concerning the implications of relativism and social constructionism and the challenges this...
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Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English
History & The Arts

Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English

...human relationships, and help with the smooth running of society. There are several different ways to express the idea in English, many of which reflect different levels of formality. At the more casual end of the spectrum, for example, you have a word like ‘ta’, originally a childish form of ‘thank you’ (dating from the 18th century), but now commonly used as a...
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David Bowie: identity is creativity
Languages

David Bowie: identity is creativity

...human or alien) was an abiding metaphor he returned to from the early days of Major Tom in the song Space Oddity (1969) through his re-appearance in Pierrot costume on Ashes to Ashes (1980) and most recent embodiment in the video to his latest single Blackstar in which a woman approaches a figure in a spacesuit lying on the ground, she opens the visor to reveal a...
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