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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...outs and couplets written on red paper devoted to the popular themes of ‘happiness’, ‘wealth’ and ‘longevity’ are used to decorate windows and doors. Children wear brand new clothes on this day and receive money in red envelopes, known as 红包 (hóng bāo), from their parents and grandparents. Learn common new year’s greetings in Chinese The most common new...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...out about The Open University's Open degree. The Quest For AI (And Why We’re Not There Yet) The concept of thinking machines dates back to antiquity. Renaissance craftsmen built complex automatons to try to simulate intelligent behaviour. However, the possibility of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI) had to wait until the arrival of programmable computers in the...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...out in the purge? Now, after a lot of noise about weeding out infiltrators, and one batch of more obvious candidates for expulsion which included Ken Loach and other prominent figures from other parties, there is a clear drip-drip of new rejections. Many are young left wing activists from the student movement and other social movements who joined Labour, enthused by the...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...out the forests of rubbish, I believe it will make only one decent volume. At that time he was direly beset with visitations more terrible than the normal poverty of authors. A little before I knew him he had come one morning to my friend Hill, wet and shivering, having slept under a hayrick in the Hampstead fields. I have a letter from him of this period, in which he...
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The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...out of the sky. Cheetahs are nature’s sports cars The series' “car chase” footage of African wild dogs, achieved using gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a vehicle, puts you alongside the pack as they hunt. It illustrates why they are the most successful hunters on the plains and can bring down prey ten times their size: they hunt in co-ordinated packs led by a...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...out. She cannot. No other woman in American history has successfully negotiated the cross-cutting pressures of the feminist movements that bore her, the party that took years to truly embrace her and an electorate that is so deeply polarized about her. There is no denying that she is “badass.” And that’s a good thing. It got her here. Wounded in some ways, disliked...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...out on BBC Radio 4, but no welcoming comments appeared from government ministers including the UK’s Minister for Culture, Media and Sport. So much for a significant early piece by one of Britain’s most revered poets. The work in question was a pamphlet by Shelley entitled the “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things,” written anonymously in 1811 in support...
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Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...out – economically by the damage (even if only short-term) incurred while stuck between old and new trade arrangements, or politically by the need to keep an open border round Northern Ireland? [The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017] The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017 It’s becoming...
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