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Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...world through a window of a moving train] The key question to answer when thinking about method is ‘how do we know?’ But what has the idea of ‘being in motion’ got to do with knowledge and how we know it? In this blog I will take a big step back and examine how, in the history of natural science, ‘being in motion’ has put our knowledge into question. This, in...
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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...world, but in modern adaptations it has become a curse or pathology. Not everyone can be Holmes, but in his monstrous contemporary form surely hardly anyone would want to be Holmes. In asking why Holmes continues to appeal, maybe it is a mistake to focus on Sherlock himself. It is not so much Holmes’s intellect that changes, but how others react to it.[The Conversation]...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia by raging against a refugee resettlement deal that had been struck in the dying days of the Obama administration. When Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, called Trump to seek clarification about the deal – which involved resettlement in the US of up to 1,250 asylum seekers held by Australia in an off-shore...
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Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...world. Our preliminary findings from the observations and survey highlight that 1) there were a range of reasons people attended marches and 2) across and within sites, there were varying experiences of “the” march in any location. One striking similarity we observed across sites was the limited visible presence of social movement organizations (SMOs). For sure, SMOs...
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Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...world, a last minute veto by Spain could derail the whole agreement, irrespective of how the other 26 other countries of the EU view the deal. While it is easy to understand that a win-win is a good strategy to follow, with Brexit it is becoming increasingly obvious that this will be extremely difficult to achieve in the time frame of the 2-year negotiation process. The...
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Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...world. Fishing quotas to serve the public interest There are many different ways to manage fishing quota. A 2017 report looks at 12 EU countries and how their fishing industries perform across 12 objectives to ensure that the system of fishing rights is good for fishers and for society. The results reveal that the UK system has low performance on many objectives. In...
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How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?

...world, and scientists realised that seismology could be used to monitor these kinds of tests. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, nuclear testing moved underground. The seismic waves from underground tests are more difficult to detect, because the shaking felt over such long distances is very small – only around one millionth of a centimetre. To measure the waves...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...for entrepreneurship are not as large. And those firms that are born are more likely to lack ambition, as they aim to be acquired rather than conquer the world. This article, originally published by the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC licence, is based on the authors’ paper Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2017...
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