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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...become a person. It is unclear how well any of these proposals would relate to the case of chimeras. Our understanding of what kinds of chimeras we may be able to create is still in its infancy. It is unclear whether chimeras will share features with the problem cases that drive much work in ethics on moral status. For example, will growing a human heart or some human...
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Why are many African governments wary of social media?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are many African governments wary of social media?

...become major sources of news for many internet users. They sometimes inform what’s reported in the ‘traditional’ media. Jokes aside, government violations of electoral procedures or other human rights violations can be exposed online. Social media has played a role in empowering civil society and helps opposition movements to organise in some of Africa’s most...
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What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...become someone else’s responsibility. The Le Touquet Treaty is a bilateral agreement that has no relation to the EU or EU law. In principle, nothing stops this arrangement from continuing after Brexit. What it depends on is the willingness of the French government to stick to the deal and Macron is on record as saying he would seek to renegotiate this agreement. The...
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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...become shareholders in all manner of get-rich-quick schemes – from gold mines in the Amazon to rubber plantations in Malaya. Shares in demand The public fell over itself to buy shares in the London Electrobus Company and what was considered to be “the aristocrat among public conveyances.” The problem was that while the basic idea of the bus was sound, the people...
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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...become autonomous from governments in de facto terms, undercutting national accountability. The author dismisses the traditional measures suggested to address this problem. For instance, empowering the European Parliament will not work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with citizens. Indeed, he...
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...become unavoidable in political commentary’. Dowden’s tweet was part of a concerted and highly-coordinated effort by Conservative HQ to do precisely this: provide unequivocal backing for Cummings, and in so doing to change the narrative that had taken hold in the media since details of his trip emerged. But in trying to impose their own narrative on events they ran...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...become a knight-errant to fight injustice. In this extract, he tells us his reaction after seeing a monkey (who belongs to a comedian) performing some tricks. Transcript The Golden Age - Amor constante más allá de la muerte The Spanish Golden Age is a period where Spanish literature flourished, jointly with other artistic expressions. Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) is...
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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...becoming a decentralised energy system. The IOCs also find themselves burdened with “stranded assets” – fossil fuel deposits that cannot be exploited if international agreements on limiting greenhouse gas emissions are going to be fulfilled. The demise of the oil majors has been predicted before, yet the companies live on. Despite recent setbacks, they are still...
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