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What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...become alert and flee. The experiment was conducted under artificial noise and repeated during quiet control periods - building upon our previous research. Although we expected that the prairie dogs would take longer to respond when distracted by noise, we were surprised by our findings. Unlike the fish and the crabs, in the presence of noise, prairie dogs reacted earlier...
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Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
History & The Arts

Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen

...become part of our emotional lives – the weather in which we walk – as much as Cohen’s. When ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ closes with the densely personal line, ‘Sincerely L. Cohen’, we somehow don’t feel that it only applies to him. By disclosing this story of fractured relationships in the form of a letter to a rival, Cohen writes a script we can readily feel...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...become more fragmented. “All over, but particularly at higher latitudes, species are rapidly shifting around the landscape,” says Hope. “The ranges of many species are changing as environmental conditions change, and the result is a sudden increase in overlap in these communities.” When environmental conditions change, species may adapt to the new conditions,...
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Yes, we still need International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Yes, we still need International Women's Day

...becoming increasingly mainstream. Sites such as Everyday Feminism and Feministing have certainly captured the public interest and, particularly, that of young women. Celebrities support it) and magazines we once associated with traditional femininities now tell us that feminism is cool. To this we can add the complex political events of the last 12 months, which appear to...
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Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...on little of its promises. Calling an election now then, when the going still looks good, is May’s best chance of ever becoming an elected prime minister. In that circumstance she has succumbed to vanity, as all politicians do. Britons might all, quite literally, pay the cost of that. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...become the next president of France. The result is, of course, in all sorts of ways extraordinary. In a little over a year, the 39-year-old former finance minister has gone from being a wannabe to the future tenant of the Elysée Palace. He struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent,...
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What's the difference between a refugee, an asylum seeker and an economic migrant?
Society, Politics & Law

What's the difference between a refugee, an asylum seeker and an economic migrant?

...become an asylum applicant and be recognised as a refugee in Britain, migrants need to be on UK territory. However, the UK – like most countries in Europe that have signed the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees the key legal document in defining who is a refugee according to the UN – is making it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to...
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983

...becoming eroded through the development of tourists. Now of course it’s a catch 22 question: are you going to leave this into a sort of an Indian reservation and have no development at all or are you going to risk the language or the culture by having development? I came down heavily on the side of the latter because I claimed that if you didn’t have development you...
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