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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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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...simple story about an electric bus.” Some electrobuses did run on London’s streets. Harrods, the fashionable department store, used electric delivery vans till 1918. In 1911 a fleet of 17 electric and hybrid buses was running in Brighton, on England’s south coast, but by then the London Electrobus Company – wracked by court cases and press exposés of its...
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...simple statement sums up travel today where forms of travel connect us like never before. Wherever we go in the world, there are people like us, travelling as we do with places to go and their own reasons for going there. This is also reflected in her opening statement about there being ‘no real endings, borders or boundaries’. This is what makes good travel writing...
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Full mould casting (evaporative pattern)
Science, Maths & Technology

Full mould casting (evaporative pattern)

...Simple equipment and low operating costs enable savings of 10–20% to be achieved compared with conventional sand casting. Best suited for low to medium production runs of the order of 50–200 per day, for castings with a high sand/metal ratio that require complex cores. Patterns of special low-density polystyrene beads of diameter 1.25 mm are usually produced in cast...
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Freedom of speech
History & The Arts

Freedom of speech

...simple principle’: ‘That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.’ However, when it comes to the actual details, things are not so clear. Take betraying state secrets. When Edward Snowden...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...simple genius: a light-weight and immensely powerful tool that uses a blade of energy to not only slice up disciples of the Dark Side in a single blow but also act as an effective shield against laser blasts. So why don’t we have working lightsabers in real life? Surely physicists must be smart enough (and big enough Star Wars fans) to be able to produce one of these...
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