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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...human rights) and the worth of equality (protected through institutions of global justice). The ideal character of this liberal cosmopolitanism offered a rather abstract, and in some respects naïve, understanding of the global structure of society. It lost track of concrete and localised problems of social relations, including oppression and exploitation in the era of...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...Resource’. My research for the project has included a field trip to Hong Kong to document the Occupy camp that was established under the HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) building (designed by Norman Foster) in Central Hong Kong on October 15, 2011, and documentation of various Occupy events organised in London since the dissolution of the camp outside...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...human world. In 2015 ORIGINS Festival involved another Totonac event. The Voladores (Birdmen) de Papantla erected a tall pole in a park near the Grenville Tower, London, and the performers enacted a 1500-year-old ceremony originally intended to end a long-lasting drought. While one person stood on a small platform at the top of the pole, four others, roped to the pole,...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...humans are rarely stagnant and isolated – we flow, spread, and mix. This genetic continuity means that the genetic landscape is actually formed of gradients, shaped by geographical features. For example, France and South Africa are far apart indeed, and the native people are also visually very distinct. But there is definite continuity in geography and the people –...
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Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...human capabilities. It’s the engine of progress, the cradle of culture and the foundation stone for civilization itself. For AI to be able to mirror what humans can do in this area would, it’s argued, mark a very real step towards machines attaining genuine human-like intelligence. Alongside the technological challenges involved in the development of such capabilities...
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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...human nature. When Greeks explored beyond the Aegean they did so as colonists, building new cities on the model of their homelands. Several centuries later, as her empire started to expand Rome adopted a similar approach, using cities to provide protection and a Roman lifestyle for residents, to extract resources from the provinces and ultimately to establish Roman...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...human/machine hybrid genuinely represent a new way of living - or are they wrong? Frieda Klotz went to the Cyborg Fair to find out...Michael Bareev-Rudy never expected to have his finger implanted with a magnet. But in November 2015, the 18-year-old decided to embed a 3 mm x 1 mm magnet in his index finger at an event held in Dusseldorf, Germany. A crowd gathered to watch...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...human embryos, can now be allowed in the UK. How was this ruling reached? What is the story behind cloning? The idea of cloning animals was first suggested in 1938 by a German embryologist called Hans Spemann. He proposed what he called a "fantastical experiment" to remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with a nucleus from another cell. 14 years later in...
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