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What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?

...works...We spend around six years of our lives dreaming – that’s 2,190 days or 52,560 hours. Although we can be aware of the perceptions and emotions we experience in our dreams, we are not conscious in the same way as when we’re awake. This explains why we can’t recognise that we’re in a dream and often mistake these bizarre narratives for reality. But some...
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of our sun (shown in the computer...
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RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...work if the local authority in effect ceases to exist. 2. A local vision for schools With the demise of LEAs, many schools will be run by multi-academy trusts (MATs) – chains of academies run by the same sponsors. Many trusts operate a number of schools, sometimes in different local authority areas. Some may know more about the local community than others. The only...
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Why do American parties hold conventions?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do American parties hold conventions?

...work in the autumn campaign – massive market research exercises where themes, phrases, and people are road-tested and focus-grouped for the intense autumn sprint. In this most unpredictable of election years, it’ll be fascinating to see what survives the jamborees in Cleveland and Philadelphia and makes it through to election night in November.[The Conversation] This...
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‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why

...working toward that distant goal of qualifying for Tokyo 2020. The impact of this return to the daily grind on elite athletes has not been explored in depth. But it is likely that there is some negative impact on self-worth that may well contribute to the development of mental health issues. The athletic identity Issues surrounding identity – that is, someone’s sense...
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Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and the triumph of hopeful nihilism

...work hard but no longer have a voice”. Such a beautiful and important evening! The forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again. We will all come together as never before — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2016 Amid his outlandish claims, unjustifiable attacks on immigrants, minorities, women, and even the disabled, he resonated with a strong...
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Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made’. Thus, genealogy enables us to historicise and denaturalise the present, and to explore the manner in which what we take for granted (as ‘the’......
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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...work, i.e. perform inter-personal aspects of their identities and achieve interactional/communicative effects through code-switching. A lot of code-switching is for practical reasons to fill a linguistic gap for a word or concept but I am particularly interested in instances of code-switching where speakers are expressing emotions, making evaluations or achieving in-group...
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