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Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...account of a personal road-trip taken by the Canadian author Kevin Chong, as documented in his 2005 book Neil Young Nation. Commenting on the Halliwell’s new book, Chong said: "In a half-century of music, Young has offered wistful glimpses of the North American landscape. In one moment, he will nostalgically invoke his Canadian past in a piano ballad and, in another,...
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Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...accountability when war crimes and Human Rights violations are investigated. These images of the everyday realities of war can engage us emotionally in ways that news images do not. But equally, when recordings of war crimes or abuse or torture in the smartphones of Syrian refugees get into the hands of hostile forces, they can mean danger and even death. Similarly, maps...
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The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...account of the trial in his Apology would seem to confirm this). The last days of Socrates are chronicled in Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, the last dialogue depicting the day of his death (by drinking hemlock) surrounded by his friends in his jail cell in Athens and, as Plato puts it, "Such was the end of our friend, a man, I think, who was the wisest and...
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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...account of the events. A wide ring means that it was a happy tree, with plenty of water and sunshine. A narrow ring means that it was under a lot of stress, either from high winds or a very dry summer. If the environment and conditions affected the trees that much, just think what it would have done to the human population! But a living tree can only go back so far. To go...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...account or actively build on the potential of online machine translation tools as a learning and assessment tools. Some ideas include: Students demonstrate their understanding of the language taught by actively using it in their own work. For example, they formulate their own sentences, using specific language taught in the course. This enforces the application of taught...
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A Victorian Christmas: Victoria's Christmas
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Victoria's Christmas

...account of this business of the Speaker's or “this unlucky manoeuvre of the Speaker” as Lord Melbourne called it, and which I shall now mention. The Speaker sent in his resignation on Saturday night, which is very wrong of him to do, as it embarrasses us a good deal. Lord Melbourne says that the Speaker is very touchy and complained that he had not been well...
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Finite Element Analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Finite Element Analysis

...account to get a true picture of the hub's behaviour. Creating a mesh model Step 5 is to create a mesh model of the hub, with 72 000 elements. The mesh density is at its greatest in areas of particular interest. Solving a mesh model Step 6 is to input the various stresses and loads that the hub will have to cope with, and use a computer programme to solve the model. Today...
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Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...account the specific characteristics of different constituencies, and it also can’t take into account data from opinion polls run in single constituencies, which are becoming more common. So a wide range of different methods is being used to produce seat forecasts for the 2015 election – and we won’t really know which is best until after all the votes are counted...
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