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Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...working machines. Finally, there are security risks. Many older voting systems rely on outdated operating systems, like Windows XP and 2000, which are no longer supported. Several election officials told us that they stockpile refurbished laptops that can run obsolete versions of Windows. Sherry Poland, director of elections in Hamilton County, Ohio, told us that she...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...worked once”, as she describes it. One place that has managed to break this pattern is Northern Ireland, which has overcome the problem of poor labelling of lines such as intravenous lines and urinary catheters. A sick patient may have several different lines attached to them; these were not labelled in any consistent way – if at all – so a nurse might use the wrong...
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The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...work was published in four separate novels between 1924 and 1928: Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up- and Last Post. (Some Do Not… anticipating by some years what became known as the ‘war book boom’ in 1929, when Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues – All Quiet on the Western Front, Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero and Frederic...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...working on a task can also be motivating. When something feels easy, it can mean that success is possible and when something feels difficult, it can mean that success is worthwhile (“no pain, no gain”). In this case, homework that feels easy implies: “I can do this!” Homework that feels difficult implies: “This is valuable!” Naturally, the demotivating frames...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...work of Treezilla...Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications Trees have been in the news a lot recently with political parties trying to outdo each other on tree planting pledges. As the climate crisis has risen up the political agenda, trees and tree planting have been recognised as an important response since they take up carbon...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...work, in the evening time. Jack Fowler Traffic lights on a bridge change the patterns of the traffic flow. Once it changes then you’ve got all the traffic that’s backed up, and they come, a wave of them rush across the bridge, and whatever is in that line, that’s the load that you’re going to get at that time. And it was on both sides and it worked both ways. So...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...work, it would be another bridge next to the exact same bridge that you have, and then remove that false work when you’re all complete. The different techniques that we use to inspect the steel members would be, um, non-destructive testing where we can x-ray the metal or we can use a sonogram where you use a gel over top of the metal with a sound probe. In the near...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...worked around the clock for three exhausting days to provide basic nursing care – feeding people, giving medications, turning them every two hours and cleaning them up. One older man had severe cerebral palsy but was fully alert. He had been lying in a dirty diaper for hours, on a pallet on the floor in a crowded, loud, bright room. I knelt down to tell him I’d be...
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