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Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...becomes more important to think carefully about the answer that you will be expecting. Should it be bigger or smaller than the number you started with? Let’s have a look at an example before you have a go yourself. If you have a photograph that measures eight inches by ten inches, as shown in Figure 2, what is the total distance around the photo in feet and inches? [A...
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What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...become turbulent across the world. Planet Earth has undergone massive climatic changes before. It has been through five ‘great extinctions’. The difference with the climate and ecological crisis the Earth is now facing is that it is ‘anthropogenic’, that is, caused by human activities. The link between burning fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) and global warming...
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Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh
History & The Arts

Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh

...become establishment figures. As children’s literature expert Peter Hunt notes, they are “part of British culture, passing from generation to generation”. One element of the incredible success of the Pooh books is that they reflect ideas about childhood that emerged in what is widely known as the “golden age” of children’s literature, spanning from the...
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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...become central to the debate – the morality of people who use the website and the hackers. But what about the morality of the marketers? We’ve stopped questioning the use of sex to sell things, but what about when marketing is used to sell illicit sex? Avid Life Media appears to have been making money both out of people’s desire to engage in dishonest behaviour –...
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Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do sperm whales speak with local accents?

...becomes to interact with others outside your group. One big ocean – so why the different clans? Back to whales. In the latest study, Maurício Cantor, Hal Whitehead and their colleagues show that cultural difference is the best way to explain why sperm whales live in multilevel societies. This social structure is best described as having several levels of organisation....
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Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...become central to the British parliamentary tradition, and also enjoys something of a cult status abroad, where the sight of grown men and women goading, braying, and heckling one another is greeted with a mixture of puzzlement and wonder. At its most volatile, PMQs is a bear pit. As the Guardian journalist Michael White pointed out in the 1990s, “little more...
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How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...becoming less central. Unanswered questions For VW itself, apart from the massive loss of share value in recent days, its corporate social and environmental responsibility has taken a severe knock. Diesel cars represent a large proportion of new car sales in Europe and also of vehicles in use. Many of these will be Volkswagen Group vehicles bought by people who probably...
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How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...become cut off from artificial sustenance, death ensues within 10-14 days. Keep in mind that these individuals are in a coma and completely immobile, thereby consuming the lowest amount of energy possible. It can thus be surmised that the same conditions (no food or water) in a person who is at least somewhat active, and who may perspire, would only lead to a much swifter...
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