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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

...study or recall … The drying up of the planet is certain to proceed until its surface can support no life at all. Slowly but surely, time will snuff it out. When the last ember is thus extinguished, the planet will roll a dead world through space, its evolutionary career forever ended. We can only hope that measurements made by the the Trace Gas Orbiter over the next...
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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and politics...
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Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating Links Between Pesticides and Mental Health

...study I am using cognitive tests and self-reporting based assessments, to investigate how mood disorders present in people that have been exposed to organophosphates. This information will be compared to people with little or no historic exposure, producing a picture of what the effects of exposure might be. Self-reporting is an extremely useful tool, which is only...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...study will be gathering this data from three floodplain meadows in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, looking specifically at changes in nutritional minerals and anthelmintic compounds that can help to combat parasitic gut worms and reduce reliance on pharmaceutical drugs. A mixed methods design will also look at the acceptability of different approaches to the timing of...
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Do whales commit suicide?
Nature & Environment

Do whales commit suicide?

...studies also point to features on the coastline and at sea that might disorient whales and dolphins. Finally, even whales and dolphins make mistakes, as in the below video of a killer whale, filmed earlier this year. Transcript It is also worth remembering that many of these species live in social groups. As in human communities, if an individual is affected by any of the...
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An American Classic: How Spam became a success
Money & Business

An American Classic: How Spam became a success

...studies on consumers’ brand attachment, they showed that in order to form meaningful attachment with brands, consumers need to experience them in ways beyond simply buying and using the product. Hormel seemed to intuitively understand these ideas. Simply selling a cheap, useful product wouldn’t be enough. In creative and humorous ways that went beyond traditional...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...Studies qualifications The Underworld The earliest Ancient Greek poetry features descriptions of the Underworld. Also known as Hades, this was the destination for souls after the death of the physical body. The soul – a wispy and insubstantial image of the deceased – would emerge from the corpse and flit away on its next journey, often guided by messenger god and...
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Perseus: what’s in a name?
History & The Arts

Perseus: what’s in a name?

...Studies, lifts the lid on the details behind its namesake, Perseus, a mythological character whose story has been told time and time again...[Perseus statue] As you’re enjoying the spectacular sight of the Perseids streaking across the night skies, you might find yourself wondering how this phenomenon came by its name. Although this meteor shower actually consists of...
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