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How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...Research and Extension in Yemen, points out that “khat consumes about 38 per cent of the total water used by the agricultural sector”. There are also debates about the high number of wells that have been drilled over the past two years, which nearly doubled and have gone unchecked during the war, according to Al-Maroni. Khalid Saree’, a khat farmer in Bani...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...research participants respond is often at odds with the claims of philosophers. (Note: the empirical status of philosophical claims about folk intuitions is a current topic of hot debate, but this issue is beyond the scope of the present discussion). Furthermore, supposedly philosophically-irrelevant factors, such as culture and gender, also affect lay peoples' intuitive...
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Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...research is both slow (it takes time to be trusted) and small scale (we may know how particular groups in particular places might think – but not the society as a whole). Still, such studies might get closer to how people feel than many of the big claims currently going around in journalism (and some social science writing) about politics. They might also help with the...
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Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'
Money & Business

Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'

...research shows that certain properties of consumers’ psychology, particularly aversion to small-scale risk, make time-limited offers particularly attractive, and that this attraction is stronger when consumers are not subject to high time pressure. There is growing concern that by using cookies to track the identities of website visitors, internet sellers may remove...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at The Open University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works...
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...research has shown that despite the various white papers from the UK Government supporting carers and the introduction of the Carer’s Assessment and Carer’s Allowance, many carers feel undervalued by society and looked down on by some people because of their caring role. Some carers, especially those who are full-time carers, feel excluded from society and may also...
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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...research with mobile messaging users, I’ve explored how this happens in practice. For example, on a Monday morning shortly before Christmas 2021, project participant Hannah receives a message at 7:29am while she is still sleeping from her old friend Hazel. [whatsapp message, saying lovely to see you last night, mentions a gift wrapped partcel from Selfridges on its...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...research makes to human health and well-being. However, even before its release the DSM-5 came under attack from certain health professionals and service users. The critics can broadly be divided into two camps: those who are opposed to mental health problems being classed as medical disorders and those who feel that there is a role for psychiatric diagnosis, but fear...
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