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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...works or already exist. We don’t yet know how easy it is for life to get started even when conditions are right. But were life to exist or suddenly begin on any of TRAPPIST-1’s planets it is very likely that it would spread to its neighbours, as shown in a recent study. [NASA artists impressions of the Earth Like planets] TRAPPIST-1 and its seven planets. Orbits drawn...
What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars
Society, Politics & Law

What missing lander means for Europe’s quest to find life on Mars

...work Mars as the Abode of Life, Lowell states: “We have carefully considered the circumstantial evidence in the case, and we have found that it points to intelligence acting on that other globe, and is incompatible with anything else.” Unfortunately for Lowell, subsequent observations with more powerful telescopes revealed that the channels were not real features, but...
Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...worked for Donald Trump because there was so little trust in the political establishment to begin with. It may also be what unravels him in the end – a lack of trust by those in his administration. The public may come to trust that his rhetoric is not mere positioning but declarations of intention. This may lead to greater resistance to his plans and a wider recognition...
Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...working- and lower middle-class Victorians. Given the limited time available for leisure, the importance of the Sunday newspaper as a form of entertainment becomes clear. Violent Victorians today Some of this may be familiar to you. Discrete pieces – such as execution broadsides, or penny bloods – are occasionally brought out to titillate 21st century audiences, to...
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...working extra hard to create meaningful access to education for those the report calls “disadvantaged subpopulations”, distinguished typically by income, gender, disability, ethnicity and location or migration status. Among the world’s three to four-year-olds, the richest children are almost six times more likely to attend an early childhood education programme than...
Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...work to say a wee prayer’. I was bereft of words but – a Protestant and not my thing really – gladly agreed to ‘say a wee prayer’ in return – a revolution of feeling as much as of hard ‘reality’ (though maybe those are not so different). That is now Derry. The images too have a tale to tell: the community-created murals that now replace the old pictorial...
By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire
Society, Politics & Law

By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire

...workings of the system, and called for a new system to put the structural defects of the present one to rights. A flawed democracy The “strong democratic mandate” promised by the new system has simply not happened, and not just because of low voter turnout. The problems since then have been many and varied. One of the most troubling issues is the inability of the...
Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and politics...