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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...universal access to effective antibiotic treatment of common infections.” “In many countries, poor people obtain these drugs in unregulated markets,” Bloom said. “They often take a partial course and the products may be sub-standard. This increases the risk of resistance.” For at least fifteen years, we’ve known about these socioeconomic origins of...
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The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...University of Reading, we employed huge data sets to compare the performance of opinion polls and betting (or prediction) markets, over a large number of US elections. We concluded that the markets tend to be more accurate than the polls in identifying election outcomes. There are signs that pundits and reporters are noticing; RealClearPolitics, for instance, also now...
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How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?
Science, Maths & Technology

How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?

...University of California, Los Angeles, analysed zircon crystals from samples of ancient lunar crust collected by Apollo 14. They argue that the ratio between two isotopes of the rare, zirconium-like element hafnium (Hf-176 and Hf-177 – the latter has one more neutron in the nucleus than the former) can be explained only if the magma ocean that covered the newly-formed...
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Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?
Society, Politics & Law

Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?

...universities, hospitals and research institutes. Prominent Leave campaigner Michael Gove declared that the UK has had enough of experts. No-one expected the government to adopt this sentiment with such bizarre enthusiasm. Quitting the single market will close down access to EU agencies. Some transactional relationships will survive, but few divorces end up as harmonious...
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Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...universal agreement that major news outlets like the New York Times, scientific journal publications, and experts with advanced degrees are all highly trustworthy. Think about how this might play out in communities where the “liberal media” is viewed with disdain as an untrustworthy source of information…or in those where science is seen as contradicting the...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...University decided to give Jackson an honorary doctorate; one of their alumni, John Quincy Adams (who happened to have lost the presidency to Jackson five years earlier) boycotted the ceremony, saying that it was a disgrace to give such an honour to “a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name”. To which Jackson pithily...
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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...university departments to help promote their own agendas in the region. The UK government’s key regional ally, Saudi Arabia, is complicit in the acts of terrorism that we see in Britain these days through its promotion of an unyielding, intolerant and pernicious form of Islam across the globe. And yet the UK government still furnishes it with weapons to pursue campaigns...
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What does clay tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does clay tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...University, Rhode Island, published in Nature, further challenges the idea that clay on Mars formed just like that on Earth. The team has done experiments suggesting that the origin of most of Mars’s clays was even earlier. They considered the likely conditions on the hot, infant Mars, 4.5 billion years ago. At that time, the primordial magma ocean that once covered the...
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