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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have never been equals...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...LA-ICP-MS). The EMP allows geologists to shoot a precise beam of electrons at our tiny minerals, causing them to emit characteristic x-rays based on their chemical composition, which we can then measure. The LA-ICP-MS fires a laser at the sample, sending the debris of the mineral into a plasma, from which individual ions are separated using a magnet and are then measured...
Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...religion, in Sophocles' day. One of our best sources is the contemporary historian Thucydides who, in relating the effects of the deadly plague that struck Athens in 430 and again the following year, says (2.53) that it created a state of "unparalleled lawlessness", in which, "Men were not held back by any fear of god or law", but, "as far as the gods were concerned, it...
The Life of Saint George
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint George

...religion, St. George laid aside the marks of his dignity, threw up his commission and posts, and complained to the emperor himself of his severities and bloody edicts. He was immediately cast into prison, and tried, first by promises, and afterwards put to the question, and tortured with great cruelty; but nothing could shake his constancy. The next day he was led through...
Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...religion. By doing so, the Irish, like other racial and ethnic groups, helped to shape an evolving American culture more tolerant of diversity. References Akenson, D.H. (1996), The Irish diaspora: a primer, Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies. American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, US-Ireland Business 2022: Ireland The Next Century American Chamber of Commerce...
Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Them”: Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies,’ in Asbjørn Dyrendal, David Robertson and Egil Asprem (eds.) Brill Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. Brill: 152-179. Newcombe, S. (2017) ‘Yogis, Ayurveda and Kayakalpa– The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya’ History of Science in South Asia 5(2): 85–120. DOI: 10.18732/hssa.v5i2.29...
The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...religion. Demands include end of discriminatory practices in employment, greater public spending on education and lower taxes on the mass of poverty-stricken peasantry. 1905 Partition of Bengal. First attempted break up of a province of India by the British colonial government. This is a response to the primarily Bengal-based rising nationalist movement that was...
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...religion. A senior officer shared this thought: “If a society wishes to rely on policing to referee their disputes, absorb financial cut after financial cut, deal with a past bigger than us all, and manage all the new threats that every society faces, then they will end up with a tired, overstretched service full of people trying to do their best in impossible...