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Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?

...become numb to gun violence. And just this weekend, he said: “to actively do nothing is a decision as well.” While mass shootings galvanize the nation’s attention, a sad truth is that mass shootings represent a very small proportion of total firearm homicides in U.S. In 2012, fewer than one percent of firearm homicide victims were killed in mass shootings, defined...
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...become a significant liability. For Trump, the equivalent is perhaps a major terrorist attack on home soil, or a huge scandal to eclipse the Clinton campaign. Even the debates, not widely expected to help Trump’s chances, provide a potential for some upset. President Obama’s shaky performance in his first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012 was a textbook example....
How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?
Science, Maths & Technology

How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?

...become the Moon. But how quickly did all this happen? Fortunately, the supernova explosion that is thought to have given the impetus for our local cloud of gas and dust to contract – and so form the sun and its planets – seeded the cloud with newly-formed isotopes of radioactive elements. As each decays to a stable isotope at a different rate, these provide an...
Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...become highly methodologically creative, inventing a swathe of new practical ways of knowing about social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their...
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...
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...
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...
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...