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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...courses and qualifications Earth is a vibrant blue planet, the only place that we can be sure that life exists. As A Perfect Planet shows, a complex and interconnected set of systems operate to form our environment. Every planet except one in the Solar System has a gaseous atmosphere, as do some moons and even some dwarf planets. Why does the Earth’s atmosphere make it...
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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...course, but at one place there was a large building brilliantly lighted, which from certain effects at the windows we decided to be a printing-office on the scale of those in and near our own Boston. What was our shame and grief the next morning to find it was a cigar factory, and to learn that cigar and cigarette making was almost the chief industry of the mother Boston....
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...course, scenarios in which the use of one's legal name does increase accountability. Facebook has many reasons to stick with this policy, and this is one of them. But more than this, I believe the real name policy is about business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to check ID at the proverbial door, but not enforcing a...
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What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...course without effect. The case of the other man was beyond all hope. The witness, on being asked his opinion as to the effect of keeping a grave open for a couple of months, replied that the noxious effluvia emitted from it must be most injurious to health. Mr Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the...
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...course of mediated communication, traditional gender stereotypes are projected onto scientific information about sexual dimorphism. Although the original scientific article did not report any behavioural data, within it the authors speculated that their neuroimaging results underpinned a host of gender differences in cognition and behaviour (for instance, explaining...
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Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...course of researching the role of monsters and monstrosity in Renaissance Europe, and the ‘animalesque’ affinities of 16th-century Portuguese witches, prosecuted by the Catholic Inquisition, that researcher Pedro Feijó (MPhil History and Philosophy of Science) decided to lean into the worlds of those who, half a millennium later, inhabit the borders of animality and...
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Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...course, since votes are still being tallied, we’re not in the clear yet. But current indications are that this was a fairly uneventful election, from a cybersecurity perspective at least. So far, we’ve seen no public evidence of Russian hackers, 400-pound or otherwise, attacking individual voting machines from their bedrooms (to use a very tired old trope). There have...
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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...course. The ‘Pizzagate’ incident, when a man with an assault rifle fired shots in a Washington DC pizzeria, apparently influenced by a fake news story about Hillary Clinton and other Democrats running a child sex ring at the address, unsurprisingly attracted a lot of press coverage. However, there is also evidence that many people take a more sceptical approach to...
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