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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...course, is that we care less about things that happened many years ago than about things that happened more recently. However, that will not do as a reply as it simply puts off answering the question: is it right that we care less? Jack the Ripper’s victims suffered as much as the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims; they were all living, breathing, feeling individuals whose...
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...course, as with any community - particularly one built around passion - there are also rifts and schisms, personal and intellectual debates and clashes. [Three young women dressed in Teen Titan costumes for cosplay. ] Teen Titans cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Another form of youth-driven media has...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the town has increased by 3.6°C and there are 40 fewer freezing...
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...course and the products may be sub-standard. This increases the risk of resistance.” For at least fifteen years, we’ve known about these socioeconomic origins of antimicrobial resistance. Other studies have revealed problems with mislabeled or expired or counterfeit drugs. But the clearestlink between poverty and the rise of antimicrobial resistance is that poor...
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...course for European integration would be plotted, leaders spent a weekend talking earnestly about their desire to reconnect with ordinary people – yet they did so locked inside a castle, on a hilltop, cordoned off from the city and its inhabitants. What follows, however, is a well-evidenced and reasoned proposal for new forms of democratic participation in the European...
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...course of great general interest, because whatever else we do, we all live in this psycho social world. And we, all of us (I think) also suffer from a good deal of semantic pollution - misplaced ideas - many of which have got carried over by illicit extension from the natural sciences. So the end of the spectrum that concerns me, I think, really concerns us all. World...
Ice Cold In Alex
Science, Maths & Technology

Ice Cold In Alex

...course, they have to use the crank shaft of their 1930s truck to winch it backwards up the sand dune! Ingenius! But is it possible? Transcript Hollywood Science busters, Jonathan Hare and Robert Llewellyn, seek out an ageing Morris to prove their point with great success, but will it work with a 4 tonne truck? We set out to find out... Hand cranking is the old fashioned...
Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...course of action. An obvious example is the story, referred to repeatedly in the Odyssey, of how Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief in the Trojan War, returned home after the War and was immediately murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus, and how in due course Agamemnon's murder was avenged by his son Orestes. Odysseus, too, is on his way home...