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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...become, with the prevalence of emails and texts, ubiquitous signifiers of the writer’s mood. As Jean Berko Gleason points out: “They can mitigate the brusqueness of a brief reply by indicating the writer’s enthusiasm, sincerity, surprise – it all depends on the situation.” Cutting out media middlemen These tweets are not indiscriminate and ill thought-out after...
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Ready or not, we're having an election
Society, Politics & Law

Ready or not, we're having an election

...for her Brexit vision. If, somehow, things do go wrong, and she fails to achieve a majority, all bets will be off and a second EU referendum would become a realistic prospect. But as things stand, that looks highly unlikely. The smart money is on an increased Conservative majority. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...becoming increasingly obvious that this will be extremely difficult to achieve in the time frame of the 2-year negotiation process. The danger is that Brexit negotiations will default to a lose-lose situation unless the common ground necessary for win-win can be found. So what could be done to give the Brexit negotiations the best start? To begin with it is important to...
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Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...become fully tradable commodities, as in Iceland, where quotas can be bought and sold on an open market. The Adam Smith Institute has a similar proposal, coupled with a nautical border around British waters that is policed by air and naval patrols (the IEA calls this “protectionist policy” that would lower fishing efficiency). The insistence from the Institute for...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...become older, slower and less ambitious. Fewer new private firms are born, as the rewards for entrepreneurship are not as large. And those firms that are born are more likely to lack ambition, as they aim to be acquired rather than conquer the world. This article, originally published by the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC licence, is based on the authors’ paper Is...
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No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals
Health, Sports & Psychology

No good advice: Five problems with sex manuals

...become a properly adventurous neoliberal lover. Sexual problems are almost always located within the individual – often a woman – who is also told they are responsible for improving themselves through various “technologies of sexiness” (toys, techniques, and so on). There’s very little consideration of how wider cultural messages and social structures frequently...
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How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us
Science, Maths & Technology

How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us

...become a little ironic: scientists are currently collecting samples from two asteroids in space. About five grams of material collected by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission from asteroid Ryugu arrived safely in December 2020. Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission is on its return trip from asteroid Bennu carrying around 200g of material that will arrive in September 2023. These...
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Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?
Nature & Environment

Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?

...become polluted. When managed properly, natural infrastructure directs more clean water to cities by controlling water flows, preventing sediment buildup that would otherwise choke streams and rivers, and absorbing pollutants before they flow into waterways. While some innovative solutions have emerged to protect and restore natural infrastructure—such as Water Funds,...
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