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What is The Social Contract?
History & The Arts

What is The Social Contract?

...decisions about decisions – how are we to decide who is to be leader? This idea of free individuals coming together, and thrashing out a set of rules is the idea behind a social contract. The idea is a very attractive one – it’s there in the great thinkers of political philosophy like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, as well as in contemporary thinkers like John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon. A patriarchal obligation? To many ......
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How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...free WiFi connection rather than a potentially expensive mobile data connection. Most iOS updates require you to restart your device, so downloading and installation of new software can take some time. Updates for the operating systems used by Apple Watch (watchOS) and Apple TV (tvOS) usually follow a similar schedule to that for iOS. Android Android is making great steps...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...free EU travel for Turkish citizens will take effect as it’s meant to in July. If it doesn’t, the deal could break down, and Lesvos will see new arrivals on its shores and once again the camps will fill up fast. And if it does go ahead, then the deal, which has highly dubious legal and ethical foundations, will succeed in shunting the EU’s refugee crisis to Turkey....
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The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...free when the new academic year began in March 2016. They represented about half the students from the poorest 50% of Chilean households.” Sense of urgency The need for a gear change in momentum towards all seven of the targets in SDG4 on education is stressed throughout the report. Our world leaders need to demonstrate their commitment to the 2030 agenda – to leave...
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How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...free to move, would rush back towards the positively charged end of the wire, until their negative charges once again just balanced the positive charges. This flow of negatively charged electrons appears as an electric current in the wire. In this case, the electric current would peter out very quickly, as soon as the electrons had redistributed themselves to cancel out...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...free verse. [Hedd Wyn's headstone at Artillery Wood. ]After a petition was submitted to the Imperial War Graves Commission following the war, his headstone at Artillery Wood was given the additional words: Y Prifardd Hedd Wyn (The Chief Bard, Hedd Wyn). Chairing ceremonies are presided over by the archdruid, who reads the adjudicators’ comments before announcing the nom...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...free labour were ‘surprised to announce that the negroes, after all, are very like white men and will work hard enough if you treat them well and pay them fairly’. This disproves a theory from an 1832 article that the ‘half savage population of blacks were utterly incapable of providing for itself even the means of subsistence’. Close examination of the...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...lending institutions or private donors and use them accountably and responsibly – free of corruption – for the benefit not of the few but of the many. Lastly, just as the African stool is made out of a single block of wood, each leg, or pillar is reinforced by the others and formed from the same grain, so the issues must be addressed together and simultaneously.” Maathai (2009, p56–57) Taking it further Wangari ......
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