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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...courses. A lot has been written about the ‘attention economy’ – the way that social media companies, businesses and advertisers compete to gain people’s attention in order to boost sales. They do this because otherwise their message or product gets lost in the overwhelming amount of information that circulates on the internet. [Three young women sitting down, all...
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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...courses and qualifications. There’s an idea circulating that humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with many questions about sex, this exposes some interesting facts about the way we discuss the subject. [Snails having sex] On one level, the question of whether humans and nonhumans...
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Roman cookery
History & The Arts

Roman cookery

...course or as a light snack. © the British Museum, British Museum Press Pine Kernel Sauce 1 teaspoon celery seed 1 teaspoon cumin 8 peppercorns 1 teaspoon dried mint 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 teaspoon dried savory 2oz pine kernals 1 tablespoons white wine 1 tablespoon clear honey 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon fish sauce 1 teaspoon olive oil Dry roast the...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...course, Titan's surface material is 'icy' rather than 'rocky' but ice at -179oC has similar mechanical properties to rocky material on Earth's surface. So, in the early part of 2008, a programme of simulated impacts into the range of surfaces offered by Chesil Beach was carried out. But life is never simple. Some of the data was unexpected and needed to be double-checked....
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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...course and the audio taster Buffy meets Pygmalion has, at time of writing, attracted nearly 60,000 hits on iTunesU. April, a technological miracle is ultimately only a moving statue. She is a simulacrum which in Latin can mean sculpture, substitute, likeness and ghost. When the vampire Spike commissions April’s inventor to produce a Buffy robot to satisfy his passion...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...courses and qualifications [World War I soldiers [Posed by actors]] “I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a good deal of it must be invention”: exclaimed Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, when discussing history. I hope to demonstrate to you and Miss Morland in this often quoted outburst (most famously in E.H. Carr’s book, What is...
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Darwin on hunting with bolas
History & The Arts

Darwin on hunting with bolas

...course of the day we could not have seen less than forty or fifty. They were generally near their earths, but the dogs killed one. When we returned to the posta, we found two of the party returned who had been hunting by themselves. They had killed a puma, and had found an ostrich's nest with twenty-seven eggs in it. Each of these is said to equal in weight eleven hen's...
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'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on
History & The Arts

'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on

...course of the Cold War, but it was certainly one factor among many that encouraged what some historians have called the Reagan Reversal. Mark: I found that journal entry from Reagan as well, I didn't know that existed. It is interesting to think of his connection to the film industry because he was this President who would frequently reference films. The reception to the...
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