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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...become aligned with the direction of the field. The stronger the field the greater the degree of alignment. When pointing in the same direction, the tiny magnetic signals from individual nuclei add up coherently resulting in a signal that is large enough to measure. In FMRI it is the magnetic signal from hydrogen nuclei in water (H2O) that is detected. The key to MRI is...
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Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK

...becoming worthless and people feeling let down (Clark, 2013). Who has the power to make the decisions is a political issue. Examples from across the world show that it tends to be communities who are poorer and who have little political leverage who are likely to suffer more from environmental threats (Humphreys, 2019). [Photos taken in Happisburgh. Coastal erosion and...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...become a gateway to Europe. Fewer refugees are arriving there since the EU struck a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees via the Aegean, but the slow implementation of the Relocation Scheme and the low number of departures to other EU member states has dragged waiting times out from an anticipated eight weeks to six months or more. As one Syrian refugee I met...
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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...become an important site which allows both citizens and police to operate more effectively. Watch the video below to listen to Zoe talking more about this topic. Transcript Links to research papers: Link 1 Are you talking to me? How identity is constructed on police-owned Facebook sites. Narrative Inquiry, 28(2) pp. 280–300 Walkington, Zoe; Pike, Graham; Strathie,...
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What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars
Society, Politics & Law

What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars

...becomes riskier, because landing a rover on the surface has to be a careful operation. There is unlikely to be another opportunity to test the landing module prior to it being used to deploy the rover – so finding out what went wrong is crucial, so it can be corrected prior to 2020. The ExoMars rover will carry a drill that should be able to get through Mars’ surface...
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...become richer with the poorest struggling to make ends meet. Successive US governments have failed to address this. Instead of investing in industry, education, health care and addressing the issues in deprived communities, campaigning within US elections is often determined by simple issues such as ‘tax cuts’. These benefit the rich substantially more and do not...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...becomes clear. Violent Victorians today Some of this may be familiar to you. Discrete pieces – such as execution broadsides, or penny bloods – are occasionally brought out to titillate 21st century audiences, to satisfy our desire for a bit of rough in our education about the Victorians. Yet few have dared to expose this material in any significant quantity, to...
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‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain
Society, Politics & Law

‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain

...become fashionable – even ‘natural’ - to deride regulation and those who enforce it. At the same time, the scale of deaths to which I pointed above continues – virtually under any political, popular or academic radar. But the story I have summarised here is not one of rules, regulations, red tape. It is a story about social inequality and avoidable
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