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Big moon rising
Science, Maths & Technology

Big moon rising

...world happens on average only every 50,000 years or so, produces at least ten times more ash than any volcano in the past millennium, and could blot out so much sunlight that plants would cease to grow for months on end. A supermoon is defined as a full moon occurring during the tenth of its orbit that is closest to the Earth. On average this happens at least once a year...
Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...World’s Favourite Airline’, but they’re phrases or images we associate with a product, and which gives the company or organisation an advantage over its competitors, because it doesn’t need to communicate anything more than at brand values, or its image it’s presenting. Dr Terry O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Management A product if you like is, if you could...
Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...whom. I have often spent beyond my means, and so a partner of relative means would be a considerable convenience. I am a man of some mystery and would like an open-minded partner with whom to share my thrilling world. If you are willing to relocate to Greece, please do write to me of your affections. Is Lord Byron the Juan for you? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
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

...world at large outside cheers has become the colloquial synonym in British English for “thanks”.’ Other expressions reflect slightly different conceptions of what’s involved in our relationship with the person we’re thanking. Psychologists draw a distinction between gratitude and indebtedness. In the former you simply appreciate or acknowledge an act of help or...
Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...world...Light is a wave. This fact is something that most people are familiar with and it’s been known since the experiments carried out by the English polymath Thomas Young in the early 1800s: [Thomas Young wave diffraction experiment] Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction of waves, 1803 When he wasn’t busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta...
Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...who are engaged in the multi-million-dollar Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) industry, whose aim is to ‘correct’ autistic behaviours and ways of being. This current research project aims to give a platform to non-speaking autistic people, who may communicate independently over keyboard, to give insights into their lives within an overwhelmingly neurotypical world....
Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...world by the Indian diaspora, and it has become a festival that brings people together, no matter what their age, gender or class. It gives people an excuse to sing, dance, feast and throw powder paint and coloured water on each other – a practice that would otherwise be frowned upon in polite society! Holi is an occasion to cherish and celebrate the diversity of...
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...world had to intervene and you now have a fiscal crisis, whereby there’s rising public debts, rising public deficits and governments have limited room for manoeuvre for boosting the economy. In particular, they're limited in their room for manoeuvre for creating opportunities out of, or new phoenixes out of the ashes of the recession. Now that brings us to a famous...