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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary

...World Fair in 1958. Image: © Gergely Király Kakaós csiga Kakaós csiga is a popular pastry available in every Hungarian bakery, but it’s even more delicious home-baked. It’s filled with cocoa and twisted around in the shape of a snail's shell before baking, making it many children’s favourite. Kakaós csiga was invented by a Hungarian confectioner in 1908, to...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Netherlands

...World War, our understanding of health and consumer choice were redrawn. Now the dark, coarse loaves are considered healthier and more upmarket. Image: keepps under Creative Commons license Introduction: Dutch Historisch gezien is er een scheiding in soorten brood, oost-west en ook noord-zuid. Dat heeft te maken met wat er verbouwd werd. In het zuidwesten werd tarwe...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...world and the composers who have written for the series. But two things immediately spring to mind: the songs that accompany the main title, and the Bond theme. The former can be used as a barometer of public taste in popular music, and has become increasingly important to the films’ commercial strategies. Over the years themes have been sung by Shirley Bassey, Paul...
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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...world as it exists and a vision of how things need to change. For example, few talk of ‘Blairism’; and if they do, they normally refer to questions of style and presentation. This ideological nature of Thatcherism helps us understand wider changes in Britain in recent decades and shifts which have taken place across politics, economics and culture. Much of the...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...world nor does it inevitably mean you have to walk away from your job. Ironically the strength needed to face up to bullying involves accepting both our power and vulnerability. As any clinician will know, the work of helping other people involves helping ourselves. This turns out to be the hardest part because it requires us to put aside our shame and ask another human...
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After Manchester: The strength of the city
Digital & Computing

After Manchester: The strength of the city

...how and why. There will, of course, be calls for calm, and for recriminations, and numerous political soundbites will echo around the world. But what we hope is that the spirit of Manchester – a proud, multicultural, vibrant and tolerant city – will recover by coming together. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...world over will continue to try their luck. The idea here is that sites hosting adult material should be required by law to check the ages of people accessing their content by asking for credit card details or other personal information that can be verified on an official database of some kind. Sites like the BBC’s iPlayer have already introduced age restriction tools)...
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Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?
Money & Business

Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?

...world-class players and prices have rocketed. An alternative example of this is when Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe started printing its own currency to fund war efforts and pay its debts. A loaf of bread would ultimately cost 10m Zimbabwean dollars. Although it would be disingenuous to compare the football industry to Mugabe’s regime (or Kyle Walker to a loaf of...
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