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Dogs under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

Dogs under the microscope

...code of A, C, G and T letters. FACT: Dogs’ best friend (humans) have 46 chromosomes and their famous enemy (cats) have 38. Despite the difference in numbers, dogs, cats and humans have pretty much the same overall amount of DNA in each cell. Organisms with the largest number of chromosomes: ferns often have over 100 chromosomes, with some having over 1000. Organisms...
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Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...code repositories allow us to share code, sites like Shinyapps.io allow you to publish specific sorts of applications, and so on. So where do initiatives like a domain of one’s own come in, which provide members of a university (originally), staff and students alike, with a web domain and web hosting of their own? One answer is that they provide a place on the web for...
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An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...simple answer to these questions but, as we shall discover in the course of this course, there’s no getting around the ubiquity of things. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...An introduction to material culture: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what material culture is...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...simple, the cheapest way to provide electricity is to use coal. Not having electricity is a great hindrance to economic development not just in terms of consumption growth but also in terms of education, in terms of healthcare and so on and so forth which, even if you don't care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is...
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Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...simple models with that observational record from the recent past, when CO2 has been going up. Now that doesn’t take, I think, take into account the fact that there is probably considerably more change to come. In other words some of the feedbacks which tend to make the climate sensitivity higher are relatively slow to come into effect. RH: So what you mean is that we...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...simple technique - repetition: ‘elites’ are ‘liberal’ (or maybe, ‘liberals’ are ‘elite’), ‘lefties’ are ‘loony’, ‘Islam’ is ‘radical’, ‘capitalism’ is ‘unbridled’ and ‘beans’ (or should I say ‘beanz’) still means ‘heinz’! By these means, the adjectives infect the nouns they describe until the word ‘Islam’ carries the...
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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...simple. Let the person talk freely, or if they want to just sit in silence, that’s OK too. Do your best to stay calm and composed when trying to support others, although do not try to completely shut off your own feelings. It is important to try and find a balance between being “real” and having the capacity to support someone else. If you are finding the situation...
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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...personal ethics. [The Conversation]After all, if politics is an extension of ethics, then translation is both a political and a moral act. The legitimacy of “Trumpslation” is no simple matter – and the world’s translators have several confusing years of it to look forward to. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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