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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...free' and the people who have come to London all races, creeds and colours have come for that. This is a city that you can be yourself as long as you don't harm anyone else. You can live your life as you chose to do rather than as somebody else tells you to do. It is a city in which you can achieve your potential. It is our strength and that is what the bombers seek to...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...course, they’ve always been pretty fraught in most of the world. The problem always has been the power of the fossil fuel industry; it’s the biggest, richest industry on Earth and it’s headquartered in the United States – that’s where the biggest companies are located. They’ve been able to prevent serious action on climate change for a quarter century, but...
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...course, but it’s around $50, US a dollars a ton of coal. If you take into account the cost of carbon dioxide at around $35 a ton, that’s the number that the US government standardly uses and I’m in print with a very powerful argument explaining that’s far too low. But if you did take $35 a ton CO2 – RH: As the cost to the climate of emitting a ton of CO2? NS:...
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...course without effect. The case of the other man was beyond all hope. The witness, on being asked his opinion as to the effect of keeping a grave open for a couple of months, replied that the noxious effluvia emitted from it must be most injurious to health. Mr Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...course of mediated communication, traditional gender stereotypes are projected onto scientific information about sexual dimorphism. Although the original scientific article did not report any behavioural data, within it the authors speculated that their neuroimaging results underpinned a host of gender differences in cognition and behaviour (for instance, explaining...
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...course of researching the role of monsters and monstrosity in Renaissance Europe, and the ‘animalesque’ affinities of 16th-century Portuguese witches, prosecuted by the Catholic Inquisition, that researcher Pedro Feijó (MPhil History and Philosophy of Science) decided to lean into the worlds of those who, half a millennium later, inhabit the borders of animality and...
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...course, since votes are still being tallied, we’re not in the clear yet. But current indications are that this was a fairly uneventful election, from a cybersecurity perspective at least. So far, we’ve seen no public evidence of Russian hackers, 400-pound or otherwise, attacking individual voting machines from their bedrooms (to use a very tired old trope). There have...
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...course. The ‘Pizzagate’ incident, when a man with an assault rifle fired shots in a Washington DC pizzeria, apparently influenced by a fake news story about Hillary Clinton and other Democrats running a child sex ring at the address, unsurprisingly attracted a lot of press coverage. However, there is also evidence that many people take a more sceptical approach to...