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Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...working alongside Charles Cutting, ‘Project Fear’ was produced. But I was still not satisfied. I also wanted to make an animation of fear – outreach from the comic outreach! Charles came to the rescue again with wonderful images and, following the excellent video production of Damn Fine Media the animation on this site emerged. Book, comic and animation. The fear...
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Superplastic forming
Science, Maths & Technology

Superplastic forming

...work since tooling is easily modified. Male forming allows multiple parts to be formed in one cycle, but this technique needs careful design and control of production parameters. Re-entrant parts produced using split tooling and sliding surfaces, but with increase in die cost and cycle times. Pressures depend on material and component size and geometry: 350–1500 kPa is...
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Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Northern Ireland’s dance to the music of time of Brexit

...work of Katy Hayward of Queens University, Belfast provides expert evidence on the border question and the various solutions proposed for exiting the SEM and the customs union, whilst maintaining a frictionless border in Ireland. They include, inter alia, trusted traded scheme, maximum facilitation and electronic tracking of cross-border transactions and movements....
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...work: 21% reading only and 47% reading and writing. A further 51% say they engage with Twitter during meetings / presentations / lectures. 51% use Twitter while eating (32% reading only and 19% reading and writing), but one user specified that only when they eat on their own, and this may well apply to more users. Finally, there is one place where a lot of engagement with...
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Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
Science, Maths & Technology

Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet

...works for ours and is a far neater approach than including every Kuiper belt object as a planet – thousands of them, which would be ridiculous. The alternative of defining a size or mass minimum at which an object ceases to be a planet would suffer from our variable and imperfect ability to measure their size or mass remotely. [Image of the Kuiper Belt. The background...
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Breaking bad: The science of flatulence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Breaking bad: The science of flatulence

...works by inhibiting an enzyme found in your intestine called alpha glucosidase. This slows the release of glucose from larger carbohydrates (e.g. starches), reducing the amount that is absorbed into the blood. It also means that more of the larger carbs end up sticking around in your guts, providing food for bacteria able to convert them into gas. What drugs can help...
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...Working with ASD eyewitnesses could be stressful to police officers as well, as they are the first to interact with witnesses that could require special assistance and therefore it is important to be able to recognise them. Dionysia's PhD My PhD is looking to: Better understand the issues that individuals with ASD have with face processing, the eyewitness identification...
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People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception
Society, Politics & Law

People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception

...work showed in the 1980s that eyewitnesses’ memories are affected if a weapon is used at the scene of the crime, for instance. They focus on the weapon and are poorer at recalling other details as a result. More recently Loftus co-authored research that showed that eyewitness testimony can be influenced by the wording of a question. Participants were shown a film of a...
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