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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...free to download and deal with, then that means people can fiddle with the pictures, fiddle with content, edit content, edit stuff out of context. I think that’s quite difficult. I don’t quite see how you give free access to anything other than the blandest material, and certainly not to scientists. They sign release forms, technical phrase meaning release form,...
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When is the best time to buy plane tickets?
Money & Business

When is the best time to buy plane tickets?

...course, no company wants to discount its product more than it has to. Hence, the airlines face two somewhat contradictory goals: to maximize revenue by flying full planes and to sell as many full-fare seats as possible. This a process known in the industry as yield or revenue management. Airlines and their bucket lists Here is how yield management works. For each flight...
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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...course, healthcare professionals and their co-workers’ scope of practice, their technical gadgetry and medicinal substances are provided within an organisational structure. Each of these three elements is heavily regulated in the UK to ensure that, mostly, healthcare is controlled, efficient and above all safe. Of course this is not always the case. The Report of the...
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Averages
Science, Maths & Technology

Averages

...course, 2. What happens if a new colleague joins us, and the new colleague has 3 children? Well, now the total number of children is 11, and the mean number of children per person is 11 divided by 5, which comes to 2.2. Now none of us actually has 2.2 children, and of course it’s not possible for any individual to have 2.2 children; but that doesn’t matter. The mean...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...course, there was a crucial difference between the British army and those from the continent: Britain’s was a volunteer army, not one made up of conscripts, and it could be argued that the huge numbers of volunteers that rushed forward in the first weeks of the war indicate the extent of war enthusiasm in Britain. Between 4 August and 12 September, more than 478,000 men...
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How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Society, Politics & Law

How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials

...courses. A microcosm of society, the jury room has always fascinated people: a variety of individuals from different backgrounds all working together to make a judgement on the fate of an individual. These judgements are some of the biggest decisions a person will face in their lifetime, and can have serious consequences for both individuals on trial (such as when someone...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...course, some people’s thoughts are 'better' than others in that they are more interesting, or more original, or more defensible, closer to the truth or whatever. In as much as all of our six figures had interesting, original, defensible, true abstract thoughts at a general level, so all of our six figures were good philosophers. The question posed, though, was not...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...course it cannot go back right to the formation of Earth, because the young Earth was hot and most of the outer part was probably molten, but even so this is a vast period of time. [The Earth. Image: NASA] How do we know how old the rocks are? We can think of geological time in 2 ways: relative and absolute. Relative time disregards years and only considers whether one...
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