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Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...study from researchers in the US has noted that the accuracy of such “mind reading” technology is improving. There are various methods of detecting false statements or concealed knowledge, which vary greatly. For example, traditional “lie detection” relies on measuring physiological reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dilation and skin sweat...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...studying diverse peoples by learning new languages and immersing oneself in the field. Anthropologists have long been aware of the significance of researchers’ own cultural perspectives in shaping the accounts they produce, while seeking to avoid total cultural relativism or total pessimism about the possibility of understanding diverse perspectives. But it does,...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...studying landscape over recent decades. Prior to the 1980s geography commonly considered landscape to be a description of physical, topographical landform. From the late 1980s and into the 1990s a greater focus became placed on the representational qualities of landscapes. In other words, a landscape (and in particular, the landscapes of fine art and photography) could...
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Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...study using people who don’t listen to The Archers. I played the participants short, content-neutral clips of various characters and asked them to rate the voices on measurements of status (posh, intelligent, educated) and solidarity (friendly, kind, trustworthy). Sure enough, the assessments followed a familiar pattern, with characters such as Brian, Jennifer, Lynda...
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Why mothers post about their children on social media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mothers post about their children on social media

...who took part in our study, it was important that the photos and updates they chose to share expressed something about the closeness of their family – and something genuinely nice about their children. Rather than seeing mothers’ updates simply as “sharenting”, our research indicates that these are online expressions of mothers’ love and care in the digital age....
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Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11 and 50 years of research on Moon rocks

...study the properties of the lunar soil, a solar wind composition experiment, a passive seismic experiment to detect lunar ‘moonquakes’, and a laser ranging retroreflector to very precisely measure the distance between the Earth and Moon. But perhaps their most important task was to collect samples of the lunar surface. Apollo 11 returned 22kg of lunar samples to...
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Other Moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Other Moons

...studied some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn well enough to establish that they are high-priority targets for future robotic missions. The moons of Uranus and Neptune have been barely glimpsed by just one passing spacecraft, but this was enough to show that they too have fascinating tales to tell. The only large moon with a rocky surface is Jupiter’s innermost large...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...studies in the history of early childhood education, which eventually became known under the title: Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE). Together with colleagues at the London Institute of Education, the EPPSE team followed 3,000 children from the age of three to 16 – their entire compulsory schooling life. That team substantially extended the...
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