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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...project at The Bionics Institute, Associate Professor Megan Munsie, a stem cell biologist and bio-ethicist from University of Melbourne and Dr Andi Horvath, a science communicator. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies … We’ve already tried it – ethyl methanesulfonate - as an...
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The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...project as a “lost cause”. But the culture of white supremacy was far from defeated, and radical right-wing social movements and organisations have troubled the US ever since. The most notorious group, the Ku Klux Klan, was borne of Southern Democrats’ resentment of emancipation; over the years, it has been invigorated by other radical right groups founded on a...
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Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...project. ‘Outside the Box’ is a new piece of artwork that I will be constructing before and during the exhibition. I am asking people to contribute a story about a personal experience of an act of kindness or solidarity that I will then draw on a side of a cardboard box. These illustrated boxes will be stacked as a colourful sculpture, reminding us that we witness...
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Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...projects and lack of focus on green or sustainable approaches in the housing, hospital and education spending plans. Realistically the public expenditure focus would need to go much further to match what many would expect a Green New Deal to look like. This would have a low-carbon economy as central to all the proposals and not just some. So, whilst there are some...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...project, a general practitioner, an employer, a family member as well as care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are many more people experiencing mental distress than those who seek or...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...Einstein) wireless telegraphy invented 50-60 first fully-electronic computer 40-50 structure of DNA (Watson and Crick); first human in Earth orbit (Gagarin) 30-40 first human on the moon (Armstrong) computers with silicon chips 0-20 Human Genome Mapping Project; multiple organ transplants lap-top computers; communications networking; the Internet; artificial intelligence...
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Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...projected and these numbers have fallen quite rapidly to around 23,000 capped households in February 2015, in part because people have indeed moved into in-work benefits and in part because individual circumstances change. In that context the government has been able to claim success – although there are concerns about the quality of the work those affected have found....
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...project. His basic interpretation was that the penetrometer, after at first producing a brief high force signature had pushed into a soft surface. From his work in the laboratory, it seemed that the material on Titan was probably granular or grainy. Could it be Titan's version of sand or gravel, produced by the continued action of flowing liquid over the underlying...
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