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Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs

...on ice, it becomes unusable. If scientists can use the woodfrog's tricks to allow hearts and kidneys bring themselves back safely, the number of organs for transplant could increase; and the geographical spread of where those organs are used could increase. A lot to think about as you settle down for a slumber, while the wind starts to sweep the snow against the window....
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Shot blasting
Science, Maths & Technology

Shot blasting

...becomes necessary to rotate or convey the parts to expose all surfaces. Air blast equipment is used for cleaning extremely large parts. It is best not to mix parts of different sizes and shapes. Matt finishing is used for texturing stainless steel or aluminium or plastic sheet. Surfaces can be roughened (or etched) before adhesive bonding, painting or metal spraying. See...
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Vacuum Forming (Thermoforming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Vacuum Forming (Thermoforming)

...becomes pliable and when placed under vacuum adopts the shape of male or female mould...Vacuum forming [Diagram to demonstrate 'Vacuum forming (Thermoforming)' - see article ] Drape forming [Diagram to demonstrate 'Vacuum forming (Thermoforming)' - see article ] Thermoplastic sheet is softened by infrared heaters, forced against the contours of a cooled mould by means of...
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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...becoming parents. Growing up with communism My study focuses on how mothers and fathers born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia (current Czech Republic and Slovakia) make sense of their roles as parents in the UK. My participants all grew up during communism which adopted socialist values of sharing resources equally for everyone but at the same time strictly...
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How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target
Society, Politics & Law

How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target

...become divided to such a point that we’ve forgotten what brings us together. Of course, we can disagree on choices about the economy, morals, education and strategy, but we should recognise that liberty unites us much more than these disagreements divide us. Positive thinking It remains for politicians to make speeches that can bring us together. But each of us must...
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Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...becomes an American citizen 1958 publishes The 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...
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Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...become in effect replaceable. And if we’re no longer needed to achieve these things, our sense of value is diminished. This line of argument is based on two buried assumptions which are, I’d suggest, up for argument. The first is that a machine being able to replicate, if not excel in, a capability we have means that our own use of this capability is rendered...
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David Bowie: identity is creativity
Languages

David Bowie: identity is creativity

...becoming, never merely being – an arrival that always included its departure: ‘When the kids had killed the man / I had to break up the band’ as he sang of his most famous creation, Ziggy Stardust in 1972. This might explain why the extra-terrestrial (whether human or alien) was an abiding metaphor he returned to from the early days of Major Tom in the song Space...
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