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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...Children throughout Wales will be dressed in witch or ghost costumes come October 31, going from door to door, chorusing “trick or treat” in the hope of receiving sweets. In other words, the scene will be very much like that encountered at Halloween in the rest of the UK. On posters advertising Halloween events in Wales, the word Halloween is rendered in Welsh as Nos...
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Why would British athletes choose winter sports?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why would British athletes choose winter sports?

...children whose parents have the income to afford skiing holidays. Finally, one of the most important factors influencing why an athlete might move into a winter sport is role models. Medals won in the past four Winter Olympics in skeleton have certainly boosted the profile of the sport and may encourage more athletes to consider taking it up. Any British athletes gaining...
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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...research groups developing both flexible batteries and the energy harvesting systems needed to charge them. The body electric Piezo is a term derived from a Greek word meaning to squeeze or press, and piezoelectric materials generate electricity when they are pressured or twisted – enabling development of shoes, clothing or recreational gear that generate electricity...
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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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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
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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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