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One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...paradox of this ubiquitous ingredient, with Professor Steve Pile...[A bowl of white and brown sugar cubes] On 3 April 2017, Sky launched its latest advertising campaign onto TV and Cinema screens across the UK. The focus was its new ‘Sky Mobile’ service. The campaign features Tom Hardy, the Oscar nominated actor best known for his roles in 2008's The Dark Knight Rises...
Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro

...paradoxically appear exclusive to middle-class/right-wing/middle-aged bisexual people (ostensibly ‘normative’, perhaps), because they are a space of radical inclusivity to those who participate in alternative lifestyles. As a blogger and academic with an interest in non-monosexual experiences and the LGBT+ community, I found Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and...
Why is snow so hard to predict?
Nature & Environment

Why is snow so hard to predict?

...paradox of extreme events is that it is impossible to judge the accuracy of a forecast from a one off; we need enormous amounts of computer power not just to make the forecast, but to evaluate and improve the reliability of the forecast by studying past events. Some have called for New York to be given a special high-powered supercomputer to help make more accurate...
East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...Paradoxically a refusal to advertise the film in a commercial way has led to huge interest in it. We visited Japan for the first time about five years ago. We spent most of our time in Kyoto, however we were determined to make one visit outside to the Studio Ghibli museum in Tokyo. (While there we also insisted on going to a 3-storey stationary shop – wow, we were very...
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...paradox about Sellafield. Here you have two thirds of the country’s radioactivity stored; some of it badly, some of it reasonably well. And you would have thought that finding a solution in terms of deep disposal would be the obvious thing and people would want it. But what happened, there's been proposals for, an effort was made to try and find a site near Sellafield...
How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...paradox. Simply put, if planets and life are common in the galaxy, why have we not found aliens yet? My best guess, based on what we now know, is that simple life may well be common – there are probably billions of Earth-like planets out there, so it is almost inconceivable that life has only evolved on one of them. However, intelligent, communicating life may well be...
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...up" in latter times, and along with it the paradox, very puzzling to the coachman's mind, that there were men of old family and large estate who voted for the Bill. He did not grapple with the paradox; he let it pass, with all the discreetness of an experienced theologian or learned scholiast, preferring to point his whip at some object which could raise no questions....
A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West
OpenLearn Ireland

A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West

...paradoxically endangered the surviving traditional culture. Industrialisation has also opened the West of Ireland to a new interdependence within the international economic system. Economic relationships have been important to the region’s interdependencies: for example, in agriculture, relationships with Britain and Europe have dominated; while labour, previously...