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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...concept but I am particularly interested in instances of code-switching where speakers are expressing emotions, making evaluations or achieving in-group bonding. To demonstrate this, I am going to discuss three examples. In the first example, Fadia, a late bilingual is switching from Arabic to English, then back to Arabic again. She first switches to English to make a...
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What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...conceptions of the self and society. But we might now be entering an age of “past shock” where we are able to imagine and accept technological changes well before they were developed or even patented. The shock is no longer at the speed of technological change, but rather its apparent slowing, as scientists cannot keep up with our own imagined futures. As the line...
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How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...concept, but the true innovation was the first of the programs: a computerised promo video for Camouflage itself. [Close-up of a Sinclair ZX81 keyboard] Once loaded, the user was asked to press a button on the ZX81 when the first chord of the record kicked in. Thanks to Sievey’s graft, Camouflage’s lyrics were then perfectly synchronised. With the length of each delay...
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Approaching the break up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

Approaching the break up of Britain?

...conceptions of the UK and its possible futures. The overall UK vote to leave masked significant variation not only between the component parts of the UK as a state made up of four distinctive territorial government units (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) but also within those units – within the nations and territories that make up the UK. There was a...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...concepts of the body to which that medicine was applied, the destiny of the soul (should the medicine not work), the priorities of the society from which the funds for the treatment were forthcoming (or extracted). But the people who documented the work at the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova were not writing for us, a curious posterity; we can delight in the...
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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...conception of a solar-system montage of the eight planets, a comet and an asteroid] Asteroids are generally named by their discoverers. Classical names are favoured for certain classes or potentially significant objects, but more or less any name can be proposed so long as it satisfies a few simple rules.The already established convention for the naming of planets after...
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...concept of an impartial witness, who is clear that the perpetrator may not be present in the identification parade, who feels under no pressure to select someone and, if they do select someone, does so because they recognise that person as the perpetrator. However, psychological research has revealed the risks of relying on such testimony and how careful the police must...
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Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem

...concept in the UK. Shutterstock Extra-legal factors, even trivial ones such as whether judges have had lunch, have been shown to bias judges’ decisions. And despite their prevalence, judges have rarely been shown to counter rape myths in their courtrooms. Together, the evidence makes clear that there is reasonable doubt as to whether juryless trials will positively...
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