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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...social bonds that functioned like contracts. Over 20 months from 2013 to 2015, I interviewed more than 100 garbage collectors, scrap buyers and policymakers and worked alongside collectors on their garbage collection routes, at their homes where they sort and sell the scrap, and at recycling factories. At the site where I did the bulk of my research, around 100 scrap...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...social history We may think of sausages as a plebeian food eaten first by peasants and then by the working class – but many of Europe’s most iconic sausages were probably devised to please the palates of the rich. In the 16th century, salamis, capicolli pork sausages and other preserved meats were luxuries enjoyed by city dwellers, which also provided a bit of income...
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Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...social media. The impact of breaking the silence on sexual violence in and beyond Hollywood has been lauded as Hollywood actors, alongside hotel housekeepers, activists and agricultural workers, collectively known as the silence breakers, became Time magazine person of the year for 2017. Speaking out The importance of speaking up and telling the truth is stressed more and...
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Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...Social Sciences, and I want to share my excitement with you over this 1920s Transport and General Workers Union banner. It’s a dockside branch banner and the Dockers have quite a history of protest from a mass strike of unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1880s (the struggle against casualization and for a daily living wage, the Dockers’s tanner). The leaders of...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...social and environmental aspects. [Photos of London's River Thames] Canary Wharf - a major financial district in London The future for London? The Thames Barrier was not intended to protect against sea-level rises caused by climate change (Humphreys, 2018). When it came into being it was expected to be used 2-3 times per year. That rate of use has increased in the 2000s...
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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...social services. So hope of improving the colonies’ trade combined with need to counter growing restlessness, and forestall international criticism. For more commentary on African imagery, see: Mark Connelly, ‘ “Jungles to-day are Gold Mines Tomorrow”: Depictions of Africa and Africans in Empire Marketing Board Posters, 1926-1933’, Blog, October 2021. For...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...Social Science Research Network, 1-37. doi: 10.2138/SSRN.2966759. Curley, L., Munro, J., & Dror, I. (2022). Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making. Medicine, Science & the Law. Doi: 10.1177/0258024221080655. Devine, D., & Caughlin, D. E. (2014). Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual...
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Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...social impact - the sense of excitement in the city and the competition for best-dressed (pink) building will create an atmosphere of conviviality, a sense of place and occasion, uniting people in sport for a moment in time. There are also health benefits. Promotion of cycling, coming so soon after the Belfast City Marathon’s promotion of running, can only be positive....
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