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Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...work on the 2.4 Gigahertz microwave radio spectrum.. The term Hertz means the number of waves per second, so 1 Hertz is one wavelength per second. Your FM radio station may use 100 Megahertz, or 100,000,000 waves per second, while 2.4 Gigahertz, used by wireless, is 2,400,000,000 waves per second, making the radio waves used by wi-fi considerably shorter. Essentially,...
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Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...work produced outside of their own language community. This facilitates international collaboration and, at least ideally, strengthens and validates research. In teaching, using English enables the mobility of staff and students and makes it possible for students to study abroad and get input from other cultures. It also helps develop language skills and intercultural...
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983

...work twice as hard then to try to restore the values that have been lost and especially the language that has been lost. In 1983, positive action was being taken to restore the Irish language and traditions such as described by Michael O'Donnell, ex-shop steward in the Kilcar factory. He was Chairman of the local parish council and active in promoting the Irish culture...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...works as a poet and lawmaker are based on tiny fragments of evidence, but he is considered by some to have laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. Certainly later Athenians (of the time of Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’) looked back to Solon as the founding figure of their radical experiment with people power. Herodotus records that Solon made a ten-year journey,...
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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...work out whether they can best trust H&M ‘Conscious’ clothing made from organic cotton and signposted in-store by their Conscious green hang tag, as much as they can trust the Soil Association organic clothing label attached to their ASOS T-shirt. They might also find the Soil Association label lined up alongside the ‘Cottoned On’ label, and even the GOTS label,...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...workings. Because similar designs are used by all the major chip makers, almost every computer in the world could be affected, from Apple iPhones and Android devices, to MacBooks, large desktop PCs and internet servers. The process is also so fundamental that it doesn’t create any log of its operations, meaning there is no record of whether a particular chip has been...
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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...works, and the ingenuity that it represents?...It’s likely that, in such a situation, your thoughts are drawn to the detail apparent in the external form, perhaps to the interlocking cleverness of stacking chairs, or the flowing curves of a car panel, or maybe to the functional elegance of a kitchen utensil. If your thoughts lead you deeper into the nature of the object...
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How can you exercise safely in the heat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you exercise safely in the heat?

...works best when the core temperature is maintained at 37℃, so to help keep the body cool, the body starts to sweat, allowing the heat to evaporate. This sweating causes water loss from the blood and can lead to dehydration. To help with the sweating, blood vessels dilate to allow more blood to be diverted to the surface of the skin by enabling more heat loss as a way to...
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