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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...becomes a Greek problem and not a Eurozone problem. Why a ‘Euro crisis?’ When the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) struck in 2008, the Eurozone initially seemed to suffer no worse than the UK or US. This was partly because the ECB appeared able to respond to the crisis with the same emergency measures as other central banks: pushing interest rates down towards zero, and...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...becoming interested in the associations between such psychological factors and heart disease, particularly in women. The faster a heart attack is treated after it occurs, the less heart muscle is lost and the lower the risk of death and disability as a result. For both men and women the most common symptom of a heart attack is chest pain. But women can experience less...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...become emergent and shape the future direction of politics, not only in Scotland but across the UK. Writing this in Scotland there is no doubt that it feels a very different place. While it is at times hard to express this in words, the wider context that informs political debate and discussion has certainly changed and the wider constitutional debate has been a key...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...become both thinner and finer-grained away from the source. However, there is a very important external factor that has a considerable influence on the shape of this pattern. Can you think what this is? The dispersal of the umbrella cloud is controlled by the wind. When there is a wind, the umbrella region is blown off to one side so tephra is deposited asymmetrically....
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...become your own, and it cannot be taken away by someone else. This view of knowledge crops up in a number of dialogues, so it is likely that Plato endorsed it himself. But it has an important – and controversial – implication. It implies that we cannot come to know something just by taking someone else’s word for it, even if that person is an acknowledged expert....
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...become the monument, with the plaque simply drawing the passers-by’s attention to this detail from history. And just as you and I are shaped a little by the physical environment in which we live, so perhaps, the contention was, we can get a better understanding of the historical figure by standing in their literal footsteps. [Lord Byron’s Birthplace Plaque: Honors...
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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...become so important to people, how we give them meaning and how they shape everyday lives. Early Modern period revelled in the variety of material things available to them and put them to a wide range of uses. Studying an object can take the historian in a lot of different directions – you might study the materials it was made of, how they were made, why people bought...
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Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...become dependent on alcohol and drugs. While these facts represent a gloomy outlook, help and support are available. This can be found at the bottom of this article (Mental Health Foundation, 2022). Why is it that some men don’t talk about how they feel? Ideas about what it means to be a man and society’s expectations of them are some of the reasons why men are less...
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