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CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help

...courses. When a jury decides the fate of a person, they do so based on the evidence presented to them in the courtroom. Evidence obtained from forensic analysis, such as DNA analysis, is often interpreted as strong evidence by jurors. This perception of forensic evidence is enhanced by popular TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, where physical evidence is used...
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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...course, building belonging and mattering is not without challenges. Participation needs to grow, and informal spaces like WhatsApp require careful moderation. But the lessons are clear: face-to-face events increase impact, collaboration across faculties strengthens networks, and student leadership deepens authenticity. The long-term vision is ambitious yet essential: to...
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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should steer a course...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...course, that there are many parts of the world where there aren’t suitable rocks to capture the carbon once you’ve burned it, that’s the other trouble, isn’t it? TL: Exactly. So it’s conceivable that we could do this a giant recycling operation for our excess carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and I suspect that we may at least explore the capability to do that...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...course, they’ve always been pretty fraught in most of the world. The problem always has been the power of the fossil fuel industry; it’s the biggest, richest industry on Earth and it’s headquartered in the United States – that’s where the biggest companies are located. They’ve been able to prevent serious action on climate change for a quarter century, but...
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What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?
Money & Business

What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?

...course, throughout history there has always been a degree of racism and resistance to “foreign” foods, but for the most part these tastes have become embraced and firmly appropriated into the British diet. Perhaps then we can take heart during this uncertain time that merging cultures will be a British tradition that is set to continue. Because what started as the...
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How do you become British Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become British Prime Minister?

...courses and qualifications. Transcript Britain, like France, is a unitary state, but is a parliamentary democracy, not a semi-presidential system. British voters thus do not directly elect the government or the head of the government, the Prime Minister. And the head of state, the Monarch, is hereditary, apolitical, and not subject to election or appointment. Voters only...
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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...course, where Ashley Madison differs to other products or services being marketed by sex is that it is actually all about sex. Guilt is the other marketing technique that Ashley Madison seem to have used to their profit. Like sex, it has long been used to make us purchase things we don’t necessarily want or need. From cream cakes (“naughty but nice”) to rescue dogs...
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