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Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...research actually revolves around an invention of sorts, but rather than innovating in new areas of material science my colleagues and I have been trying to design something that could be manufactured locally and easily repaired. Our Open Source Condom Vending Machine (OSCVM.org) is an attempt to build reliable, low-cost condom vending machines in Ghana. All the...
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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...research fellows Jamal Hisham Hashim and José Siri write that humanity faces “substantial health risks from the degradation of the natural life support systems which are critical for human survival. It has become increasingly apparent that actions to mitigate environmental change have powerful co-benefits for health.” The author of the paper on heat stress, Tord...
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Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...research project, Mobilizing Millions: Engendering Protest Across the Globe. We want to understand why people participate in a march of this scale, at a critical historical juncture in our political landscape. Within weeks of discussion of the first march, there were already “sister” march pages national and internationally. While it is beyond the scope of this post...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...researcher Andreas Harsono has warned. Many governments in the region are already using the fake news phenomenon to label most media criticism as false, opening the way for state regulation of social media. Singapore is now studying the possibility of introducing a law to “force social media companies to remove misleading reports,” says Singapore law and home affairs...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...research and development (R&D) and less on capital expenditures. Average capital expenditures (as a percentage of assets) falls in half from 1975 to 2015. In contrast, R&D increases fivefold. Whereas in 1975 the average public corporation spent almost seven times more on capital expenditures than R&D, by 2015 R&D had surpassed capital expenditures. Since firms invested...
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How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
Science, Maths & Technology

How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?

...research in UK universities). ONS data does not separately identify direct flows from the EU to the UK private sector. Data from the European Commission (EC) does account for some credits to the private sector. Let’s now take a look at how it calculates the UK’s contribution using its own figures. Using the latest available figures published by the EC, a wider...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...research. But again I thought: ‘No, these people are not here for the sake of this project that I want to do.’ Then I thought about how I could make this – and then I looked at my daughter and I thought it’s my own child, completely connected and there was nothing more connected to me than my own child to talk about this whole experience. And I thought, maybe I...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...Research Institute. "The equipment" is an aluminium contraption about two and a half metres high, of tripod shape with a horizontal arm that can drop a sensor from various heights. We are off to Chesil Beach, on the coast of Dorset. Why are two planetary scientists going to the Dorset coast? Obviously, because Chesil Beach is like the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest...
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