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Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...become a bit cynical with the rise of fake news? Read on as Patrick Wong shares some tips on how to detect a fake image...A moment ago, my smartphone buzzed and I received a social media message with a beautiful image from a friend. The image shows a cute little girl happily hugging a large lion, as shown below. It is a touching image but isn’t it too dangerous to hug a...
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...become more prominent; think about the difference between the smell of rising dough and the smell of baking bread coming from a hot oven! Smells or odours aren’t always detectable by the human nose but they are present in much of the Earth and its atmosphere, forests, oceans and cities (Figure 2). VOCs can be produced by industrial processes and from all life found on...
Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...become the 'serial offender' of corporate crimes with mis-selling of products like PPI and pensions?...[PPI cartoon, society matters] In the last week of February 2016, two reports were published by the National Audit Office, on the same day. One calculated that ‘Claims management firms take quarter of PPI payouts’, the other warning that ‘Pensions overhaul could...
Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...become more aware of your eating habits? The ‘My Eat Well Diary’ link below explains how to use that awareness to ensure your body has the nourishment it needs for daily wellbeing and long-term health. Download your personalised planner, ‘My Eat Well Diary’. [A blue banner with the text 'hydration' with the image of a water drop] Our basic metabolic rate decreases...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...becoming more joined-up during this period than at any time since the heyday of the Roman Empire. Trade fostered international links across the North Sea, Baltic and beyond, and similar developments were happening as far afield as the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This was a period in which people began to live and work in entirely new ways, and technological change was...
A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...becoming more complex to answer. ...it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to keeping the results.The history of looking through a lens has a surprisingly old beginning. The discovery of how to polish a clear stone, known as rock crystal, was made thousands of years ago, probably by artists looking for new ways of making decorative art who...
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse Edited by John Hayward, Clarendon Press On Becoming a Person Carl Ransom Rogers, Houghton Mifflin Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harmondsworth / Penguin. Poem S Webster Positive News No15, Winter/Spring Home is Where We Start From Donald Woods Winnicott, Harmondsworth/Penguin. Read more articles on childhood...
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...become generally recognisable, or that if it isn’t, then it should be. It suggests, moreover, that Austen, whether you consider her as a person, an author, or a brand, can plausibly describe -- and be described as -- solid and enduring worth. It also suggests that she is a national treasure -- that the books she wrote in the front room of a red-brick Georgian house set...