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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...sources can provide perfectly legitimate estimates for probabilities. There is however no such data on which to base estimates for the probabilities of an adverse outcome in a hospital were any of the medical staff actually trying to harm the patients. It is an experiment which cannot be run. One cannot simply let a known murderer loose among the high dependency units to...
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Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?

...sources by 2020 and is even considered a “renewable energy paradise”. Renewable energy initiatives in most other countries are pale by comparison. The US has very different reasons to withdraw from the Paris climate deal. Trump wants a deal “on terms that are fair to the United States” and his reason for withdrawing from the deal is that he is “elected to...
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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...sources, Kevin Kenny estimates that between 440,000 and 517,000 of a white population of 3.17 million were Irish or of Irish descent. Kenny also estimates that of the total Euro-American population, only 4% were of Irish Catholic origin and 10% were Irish Presbyterian, while several other Irish Protestant denominations (which included Methodists, Quakers and especially...
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The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...Source: Global Invasive Species Database (http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/) What are the impacts of invasive alien species? The negative impacts of invasive alien species could be direct or indirect. Invasive species could directly impact native species through herbivory or predation; acting as vectors of disease transmission; or even physically damaging local...
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Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
Digital & Computing

Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?

...source who had participated in the drafting of the regulation told Wall Street Journal (via China Digital Times): No one in China will have trouble visiting whitehouse.gov. The White House will not have to submit network access information to the authorities, because it has nothing to do with China […] Still, the rule could affect larger foreign companies that have or...
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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...sources: Edinburgh and Glasgow top UK list of green space cities - BBC News Glasgow: Our Dear Green Place glasgow.gov.uk Glasgow Today and Tomorrow | Scotland on Screen Graffiti and litter lead to more street crime | New Scientist Health_in_a_changing_city_Glasgow_2021_-_report.pdf (gcph.co.uk) leq-2020-report-final-041220.pdf (keepscotlandbeautiful.org) Neighbourhood...
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Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...Source: CityWire/Lipper Behind the boom The fall has continued despite factors that would normally have scared buyers and forced yields higher to attract investment. These include the UK’s ever-rising debt: it is now at 86% of GDP, up from 36% in 2007, caused by a budget deficit that started to widen again this year. A slowdown in GDP growth (to just 0.3% in the second...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and transforms energy and matter to produce the things we need (and, more unsustainably, want). The earth can only sustainably reproduce about 7...
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