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Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots

...changes. So far we’ve mainly seen a pedantic and (perhaps deliberately) confusing debate about whether it would be progressive to raise income tax by 1p as proposed by Scottish Labour; the likely income from each 1p rise; and the unintended consequences of greater higher-rate taxation. Knowing the SNP will win the election makes it is relatively hard to take seriously...
Life after the Olympics: retirement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after the Olympics: retirement

...change of lifestyle?...The close of the 2016 Olympics bought with them the prospect of the retirement of some of the leading names in sport. Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Michael Phelps, for example, will all be notable absences from the 2020 Olympics, but how will these athletes cope with life after elite sport? After the thrill of the Olympics many athletes...
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...changes in their velocity relative to other such sets of objects. From this broadened perspective, motion is not movement in space over a unit of time, but the interval between events in a new, combined metric called ‘space-time’. In other words, it seems that movement does not only happen over (an amount of) time, it also has effects upon time. Through describing the...
How was the US election viewed in the Middle East
Society, Politics & Law

How was the US election viewed in the Middle East

...change much anyway – it’s their advisers, or Congress, or both, who matter. And, most of the time, they expressed a simpler exasperation. 3) But lots of Palestinians are rooting for Hillary Clinton anyway Transcript There are significant numbers of Palestinians supporting Hillary Clinton. Despite thinking she won’t help their situation, these people largely...
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...change of plans for a commercial use of the Donauinsel. A footbridge to this small island in the Danube is now named after him. [Waluliso, Viennese poet] You can see Walulisobrücke on a map. You can read his entry in the Vienna City wiki (in German), listed under his birth name of Ludwig Weinberger. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, an Austrian newspaper printed a...
What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...Changing individual behaviour and the surrounding culture is an immensely complex and subtle issue. But I think there is an irreconcilable tension between providing information with the aim of enabling people to make an informed choice, and telling people what they should do. Rather than trying to do both in a single announcement, perhaps future public health...
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...changed the President's social media behaviour...[Donald Trump campaigns in Laconia] Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia by raging against a refugee resettlement deal that had been struck in the...
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...controlled by fishers, and help pay for management. Without reforming how fishing quotas are allocated, changes to UK fisheries from Brexit will only reinforce a broken system. This article was originally published by openDemocracy on the 28 March 2017 and has been updated by David Humphreys, Professor of Environmental Policy at The Open University on 15 June 2019....