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Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...world’s leading democracy. Time for governments to act Politically motivated digital attacks during the latter months of election 2016 raised concerns about the electronic security of the American electoral process. These events included the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the ongoing Wikileaks disclosures of email accounts of Clinton advisers. These...
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...world about Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult body cell. What was special about Dolly is that her “parents” were actually a single cell originating from mammary tissue of an adult ewe. Dolly was an exact genetic copy of that sheep – a clone. Dolly captured people’s imaginations, but those of us in the field had seen her coming...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...world started to shake. I was standing in my garden in Islamabad, as the ground seemed to sway one way and the house lurched the other. Instantly we knew that this was a massive earthquake – but just how massive only became clear once news started to trickle in from remote areas. The earthquake flattened Balakot, a town that was home to 30,000 people, about 160km north...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...world’s largest free learning platforms has brought dividends to educators, to institutions, to our students and to our global body of OpenLearn learners. This milestone provides us with an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate how we meaningfully reward non-accredited learning achievements at scale for those who need them most. References, sources and links Law, P....
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...world smartphone use. PloS one, 10(10), e0139004. Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44-49. Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his training there for the clergy had assured him that species were fixed in character, having been divinely created with perfect fit to their myriad places in nature. 'Transformist' speculation from across the Channel was right out for our Anglican establishment, keen to preserve the social and economic...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...World Cup) because of its massive media coverage and the celebrity status of many of its top players. Football is all about belonging; belonging to those who support one team and making it quite clear that that is where you belong and not in the camp of an opposing team. You might show you belong by wearing a scarf or the team strip to matches (or in other situations if...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...world of crime fiction publishing, with a move from hardback lending libraries to the mass production and sale of cheap paperback editions. [A black and white image of Georges Simenon.]In the immediate post-war period and the early 1950s, crime fiction tended to be dominated by many of the same authors who had been popular in the 1930s. For example, Georges Simenon...
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