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Do whales commit suicide?
Nature & Environment

Do whales commit suicide?

...casts doubt on this analysis, with genetic tests showing that animals stranded close to each other during mass events may not be related after all. Perhaps this isn’t always a family tragedy. So why strand? The evolution of whales and dolphins is one of the best documented in the animal kingdom. These species evolved from land-based ancestors and share an ancestry with...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...cast light on the cultural beauty and complexity behind the development of these religions. Their development represents the creative fire which was burning in the souls of the enslaves in order to resist and survive to a context of slavery. I wonder why these religions, nowadays embraced worldwide, are scarcely present or totally absent within the national curriculum...
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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...aluminium. The latest generation of large civilian aircraft is built up with all composite fuselages (the main body part of a plane), wing structures, flaps and other major components. Composite materials have high strength, relatively low weight with high corrosion resistance. Wind turbine blades are also made of composite materials so that they are light yet strong as...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...cast stainless steel ingots, located in this particular special place in Hyde Park, each of these ingots representing a life lost. Now these stainless steel castings are arranged into four clusters, with the number of each life lost at each place forming the numbers of the clusters. And in turn blending those clusters together to form a collective composition of fifty-two...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...caste, ethnicity and nationality – but not so much across gender and sexuality. Hip hop is a cosmopolitan culture, yes, yet it has to do a lot of catching up to become more inclusive of female, non-heterosexual and queer heads. Together with the work of the anthropologist Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, with whom I conducted co-incidental collaborative fieldwork in Delhi,...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...sands are shifting fast. By the middle of this century Spanish will be the first language of a majority of Americans. If only 36.4% vote, is the US still a democracy? It all too often escapes attention that, in the 2014 congressional elections, only 36.4% of Americans entitled to vote actually did so. 63% of Americans believe that US democracy is not for them, but for...
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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

...sand, gravel and clay on the riverbed and swirling it with water in a shallow, wok-shaped dish), a process that relies on the extreme heaviness of gold. Any gold, being so much heavier than the rest of the minerals in the pan, will settle to the bottom, while the lighter material is washed out of the pan by the swirling motion. Any gold in your panned sample will stand...
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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...casts of the cavities of the heart and brain, using the lost-wax method. This involved filling the cavities with molten wax to discover their true shape. Once the wax was set, and removed from the cavity, a plaster cast was built around it. The wax was then melted and poured off to leave a mould. From the mould, a copy of the original cavity could be created in plaster....
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