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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...change shape and size as you get closer and then move far away. The train’s trajectory across space and wilderness had plagued me with a feeling of displacement, the state of being in between. When you travel from one place to another particularly if you’re in a car, train or on an airplane there is this feeling of not quite being anywhere and of time having no...
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Centreless grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Centreless grinding

...changing the angle and speed of the wheel. The centre heights of the grinding and control wheels are preset, and the diameter of the workpiece is controlled by the distance between them and the height of the work rest blade. The higher the workpiece above the centre-lines of the wheels, the faster it will be ground. However, if placed too high the workpiece will be lifted...
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Laser surface treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Laser surface treatment

...changes to the atoms in the lattice of the material (austenite). As the beam moves away, to another spot on the surface, the heated area is rapidly cooled by the surrounding metal (self-quenching). This rapid cooling stops the lattice from returning to its original arrangement, resulting in a very hard surface structure (martensite). For cladding, the high temperature of...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...changes depending on who or what threatens their existence, how queer lives are only grieved for when threatened by someone with an even less grievable life – in this case, a brown Muslim. As philosopher Judith Butler has noted, “[the] differential distribution of public grieving is a political issue of enormous significance”. It is for this reason that today – in...
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...changing, and there are different expectations in different contexts. For example, this type of controversy doesn’t exist for the use of the sad-face reaction that’s available on Facebook for responding to posts about tragic events. In fact, this option was specifically added following a request from users, who felt that the all-purpose Like button wasn’t able to...
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What was The Schlieffen Plan?
History & The Arts

What was The Schlieffen Plan?

...changing international circumstances by his successor, the younger Helmuth von Moltke. The underlying principle remained the same until August 1914. By the autumn of 1913, all alternative plans had been abandoned, so that Germany would have to begin a European war, whatever its cause, by marching into the territories of its neutral neighbours in the West. Shortcomings of...
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What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?

...changes in mental status or vital signs), dying (cardiopulmonary resuscitation and/or emergency intubation), and dead (pronouncements). My last name and pager number were plastered on the oncology floor, which increased the odds that pages I received would be about the dying or dead. The first one was. “I need you to pronounce,” said the nurse when I called her back....
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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...change the world for good. Only architecture was failing to embrace the future, as new buildings continued to ape various historical styles. In 1908, Le Corbusier went to work with Auguste Perret, the French architect who had pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, and then Peter Behrens, the German exponent of 'industrial design'. Behrens admired the engineer's ethic...
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