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If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Digital & Computing

If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?

...humans that are generally the weakest link when it comes to information security. The perfect crime? Ransomware is almost the perfect IT crime. If an online criminal can trick you into installing malware, they can then lock your files and hold them ransom until you pay them a release fee. Only a secret encryption key, which they hold, can release the files. It is simple,...
The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...humans) to eat their roots. The concentrations of harmful compounds in this location is lower but eating it would still make us feel ill. Lucky for us, when the potato is cooked at high temperatures (over 170 °C) glycoalkaloids get destroyed, making it safe (and delicious) to eat. Just one more Christmas biscuit [Christmas biscuit ] Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, Yule...
Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...human food source. Farming these organisms in the right way could even help counter some of the effects of climate change on the rest of the food chain. For example, growing more seaweed lowers the amount of CO2 in the surrounding water, reduces acidification, and improves the environment for oysters and other shellfish. Managing seaweed harvest correctly will also...
Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
History & The Arts

Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast

...Humanities qualifications. “In an Irish Tour, I always try and include Belfast and the north of Ireland. After all, I lived there for a while and I learned a lot playing in the clubs there, so I have a certain home feeling for it. It’s always a great audience there. Pretty much almost no one else goes to play there.” Rory Gallagher, Irish Tour ’74 documentary...
Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
History & The Arts

Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever

...human performer could render Chopin’s ‘unending’ mazurka. Longer even than John Cage’s As Slow As Possible, which is still being played by a specially-built organ in Halberstadt, Germany (the last time a note changed in this piece was in 2013; the next will be in 2020). The piece in question is currently being played in London, in what was formerly an inshore...
Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...human skeletal remains. This additional haptic processing of traumatic evidence provides a more personal, intimate, and potentially traumatic engagement with victims as jurors can directly touch victim injuries. Prior trauma amongst individual jurors may be raked to the surface as they are forced to confront triggering content in court, adding an extra layer of trauma to...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...human voice which sounds like music, and the written text. As we travel through the streets, we are struck by a sense of absence – the absence of people, crowds the hustle and bustle of city life but also the visibility of the new street royalty. The homeless have become the princes and princesses of the street, owning them alongside stray cats and dogs. EXPLORE...
Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...human spirit lives on and can be communicated with through trained mediums - grew by 21%. Druids and Wiccans nearly doubled in number over the same period, and many of those will be just as conversant with the healing powers of plants as Professor Sprout and her students of Herbology. The magic, however, stretches far beyond the census statistics to have wider economic,...