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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...Research the ancient sites and compare them with their modern locations. Change some of the parameters offered on the Stanford map (conveyance, season etc.) to see how that affects the time the trip takes, how much it costs etc. Browse amongst the Flickr photostreams to see what places look like, and who has visited them today. Consider the impact of using digital maps...
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Swearing today: have our attitudes changed?
Languages

Swearing today: have our attitudes changed?

...research they commissioned in 2021, they concluded that people are more relaxed today about the presence of swearing in films than they were in the past. As the Daily Telegraph summarised the situation (showing that perhaps the newspaper industry isn’t quite as relaxed as the film industry): ‘People [seem] to be generally lenient in regards to pictures with a 15...
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Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?

...researchers from the universities of Bath, Edinburgh and Oxford have been working to unlock the mystery of how these animals get their distinctive patterns. We have discovered that the way these striking pigment patterns form is far more random than originally thought. Our findings have implications for the study of a wide range of serious embryonic disorders in humans,...
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...research student at The Open University, looks into this here...Find out more about The Open University's Environment qualifications. “Only One Earth” is the motto of 2022’s World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle. It reminds us that our planet is our only...
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Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privacy in the Digital Age: Is it ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ or ‘I’ve got nothing to hide’?

...research I conducted focus groups in which an interesting ideological conflict frequently occurred between the ‘common sense’ notions of “an Englishman’s home is his castle” and “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”. This fuelled my curiosity about identifying the common-sense ideas that are relied on in contemporary negotiations around...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...researchers working together, in a research free from political domination and economic exploitation and marked by epistemological and ontological openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’,...
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Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...research student, Sonia Azeggagh, explains the impact of this genome editing technology on biology and medicine:...CRISPR/Cas9 is a genome editing technology that has revolutionised biology. Developed in 2012 in a collaboration between the laboratories of Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed what were previously powerful yet time-consuming,...
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How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...research in the design school is investigating people mending their clothes and how to encourage it to extend garment life...How many of your socks have holes in them? Have you ever thrown away a t-shirt just because it had a tiny hole? Or maybe tossed out a pair of trousers because a button popped off? If you have – you're not alone. The truth is most of us were never...
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