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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...intelligence and mystery. It is a complex and fascinating creature. People born in the Year of the Snake are believed to possess qualities such as charm, intuition and resourcefulness. They are thought to be deep thinkers, often seeking knowledge and understanding in all aspects of life. The snake’s place in the cycle Each year in the Chinese zodiac is associated with 1...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...artificial selection. Conventional agriculture fosters far more profound change than the one-gene-at-a-time tweaking of GMOs. 4. Nici was the spawn of 9 generations of full-sib matings. The brother-sister matings left just enough heterozygosity to provide interesting gene variants, but not enough diversity to gum up the sequencers and assemblers. Having the turkey genome...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...Intelligence Tests (EI or EQ) evaluates ability to recognise and manage emotions and relationships, including communication, self-control, emotionality, sociability and adaptability to change. Find out more about emotional intelligence here: The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace involves rating statements that assess emotional intelligence traits...
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After Manchester: What are the challenges for security services?
Society, Politics & Law

After Manchester: What are the challenges for security services?

...Intelligence insiders nicknamed self-motivated extremists “Nike terrorists” after the sports giant’s motto “Just do it”. Watching extremists is a growing headache for the UK’s security and intelligence services. Despite increased investment, choosing who to make an “essential” target and who to judge as a lower priority remains a problem. MI5’s...
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In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?
Digital & Computing

In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

...intelligent speed assistance (ISA), along with other safety features designed to alert drivers to distraction and drowsiness. Driving is complex and fast-paced, requiring the processing of information from multiple inputs, yet often we are made to feel as though it is easy. But demands on attention when driving vary from minute to minute, meaning any focus allocated...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...artificial selection on domesticated animals to support his argument that such gradual change was the way of evolution. The problem with the fossil record, he suggested, was its incompleteness – like a book from which all but a few pages had been torn, such that life's history had to be reconstructed from the few that remained. Nevertheless, the fossil record was...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...intelligent and incisive, drawing heavily on his passion for and knowledge of crime novels. This was a theme that the bluesman drew upon throughout his career, although it became a core part of his music from the late 1970s onwards as he looked for ways to bring ‘more artistry’ to his songwriting and stretch the lyrical possibilities of the blues beyond standards like...
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Why are tiger moths making people unwell - and what can we do about it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are tiger moths making people unwell - and what can we do about it?

...artificial lights,” Wills tells SciDev.Net. The new ELISA-based test kit will address this problem when used for detection of Tiger moth disease in all Aster hospitals in India, says Varma. “We will also present our data to health authorities in Kerala and at the central government so that they can take steps to control Tiger moth lepidopterism with the help of our...
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