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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?

...world, humans are being threatened by lethal viruses, cured from terminal illness by miracle elixirs, rendered superhuman with bionic limbs or made obsolete by robots possessing artificial intelligence. [A spinner vehicle created by a Blade Runner fan] But what are the facts behind these entertaining fictions? And how best to dispel the myths and misconceptions...
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What actually happens if Britain leaves the EU?
Society, Politics & Law

What actually happens if Britain leaves the EU?

...World Trade Organisation (WTO). But the WTO does not establish global free trade, which is why individual countries negotiate FTAs within the WTO framework. Of course trade would not cease on Brexit, but the issue is in what volume and on what terms – and what the consequent effects on non-EU inward investment in the UK would be. Alternatively, some float the idea of...
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Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots

...world that I’m in love with a woman”. She generally received praise, establishing the Scottish parliament as home to an unusually large number of LGB party leaders. There is also some evidence to suggest that after a few false dawns, gender-based equality of selection is catching on again. This seems to have been reinforced by the three biggest parties all being led...
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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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