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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...out, others are convinced that translators should translate Trump exactly as he speaks. Trump might be interested to know that some Russian translators reportedly alter his language “so he sounds actually kind of more like Putin than he sounds like Trump”. But beyond issues of lexis and grammar, there is another intriguing explanation as to why translators can find it...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...out what it is ‘we’/I don’t know. Knowledge needs to be diverse and flexible – while remaining robust – if it is to become something really useful in a complex and often intolerant world in which globalisation and technology increasingly compress time and space, bringing diversities into sharp relief with major human consequences. Yet short-term qualitative...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...out to investigate some of the divided or dual loyalties of former British communists. A prospect enhanced by the recent release of Security Service (MI5) files, the availability of new archival sources of the British Communist Party (CPGB), and the developing interest in personal and family memoir. However, the seminar stirred two methodological questions. Firstly, what...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...out practical work. We know landscapes are evocative and affecting but how can this become more effectively acknowledged in the policy and practice of conservation, farming and tourism? This is where the research of cultural geographers looking at landscape, space and place can help to inform such considerations. The challenge that remains for the CNPA is to ensure that...
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What does clay tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does clay tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...ancient life is unlikely to be found where the clays initially formed by chemical reactions with the atmosphere – it doesn’t rule out habitability at the sites where clays have been deposited. Yet, one link in the chain of logic may just have have been at least partially severed. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...provide substantial opportunities to shape and express collective identities through football. The “other World Cup” is here to stay. Check out the author’s short videos of Tibet and Matabeleland fans: Matabeleland fans enjoy their game vs Tuvalu (video: CONIFA / Joel Rookwood) This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?
Money & Business

Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?

...out of the EU, there would be no such aid, leaving it worse off competitively. 4. Logistical sense From an efficiency point of view, having wings made in a different country to the rest of the airframe is a poor choice. Wings need to be transported by boat to France from the UK. So potential delays in their transport – such as when the Ciudad de Cadiz (one of three...
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Other Moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Other Moons

...out from the plumes is so high that not a single impact crater has escaped burial. The heat source that powers Io’s activity is not radioactive, as for the Earth and (in the past) the Moon, but tidal. Tidal interactions between Io and the next two moons outwards, Europa and Ganymede, which take respectively twice and four times as long to complete one orbit, stoke...
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