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Nuclear transboundary consultations are a test for public participation and transparency across Europe
Nature & Environment

Nuclear transboundary consultations are a test for public participation and transparency across Europe

...open and transparent is crucial...[Nuclear power plant] One month ago, the Ukrainian government took an unexpected step. It invited neighbouring governments to participate in consultations regarding lifetime extension of nine of its nuclear reactors. For more than four years Bankwatch and other civil society groups have been calling on Ukraine to recognise its obligations...
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Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?

...opening in the poor neighborhoods of South L.A. The given reason for the ban was because “fast-food businesses in low-income areas, particularly along the Southeast Los Angeles commercial corridors, intensifies socio-economic problems in the neighborhoods, and creates serious public health problems.” Research suggests this ban did not work since obesity rates went up...
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What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?
Money & Business

What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?

...Open Market Committee (FOMC), and its decisions, like those of the Supreme Court, are final. There are few or no absolute rules, and there is no appeal. Quarles, however, has described the discretionary decisions of this small group as “a crazy way to run a railroad.” Instead, Quarles argues that the Fed should use a rules-based approach, with little or no discretion....
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...opened up new legitimate spheres to organized crime individuals. The network property of multiplexity is essential to understanding relationships in organized crime. Multiplexity occurs when more than one type of relationship exists between two people. For example, work colleagues who are also friends have multiplex relationships because they have at least two distinct...
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Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...permitted, hyper-security tends to become permanent. If we want a humane and accessible public realm and a genuinely open society, we should not let the exceptional become the norm as we seek more adaptable and effective ways of coping, in a calm and measured way, with urban terrorism. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...opening couplet, and that quickens the overall pace of the lyric, as we (and Georgie) are hurried on after three lines rather than four: Pa said, “There must be a mistake; How can my son not be straight; After all I’ve said and done for him?” Stewart exploits a variety of different rhymes (including “end,” “internal,” and “slant”) that repeatedly...
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What's happening in Zimbabwe - and what might happen next?
Society, Politics & Law

What's happening in Zimbabwe - and what might happen next?

...open-ended financial flows to such a country. The South Africans, meanwhile, wanted to slow the number of economic refugees, about 3m of whom have fled Zimbabwe for Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, all of which already suffer from rising unemployment. And so when the coup came, there was little reason for anyone to help the Mugabes cling on – even their oldest...
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Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...together here – each can learn an awful lot from the other. [The Conversation]Martina Amati’s multi-screen installation “Under”, for which she collaborated with Kevin Fong, can be seen at Somewhere in Between, an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, open until August 27 2018. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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