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Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...account for up to 40 per cent of the running cost of an offshore installation – has been reduced. The industry now uses larger 6MW turbines, which it says need less servicing, and in future it’s likely a move will be made to 8MW models. New methods have been adopted for laying foundations for pylons at sea. The industry says that as projects have grown in size,...
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Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit

...for the person concerned need to be taken into account. This is where those who have been living abroad in Europe for years, who have retired there, who have raised their families there, should feel more at ease. The court will not easily allow their European Union citizenship rights to be withdrawn. Originally published in The Conversation; read the original article ​...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...accounts they produce, while seeking to avoid total cultural relativism or total pessimism about the possibility of understanding diverse perspectives. But it does, perhaps, require much imagination, thoughtfulness, respect and an ability to stay with uncomfortable feelings when researching ways of life that may be different from our own. So, what are some of the...
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‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...account of fear responses, and there is evidence to suggest that other emotions can also be aroused by distinct pathways, some more cognitively penetrable than others. Without committing to his theory of emotions wholesale, we should, then, vouch for the effectiveness of Griffiths’s model of emotion generation. What he got wrong, for our purposes, is the explanatory...
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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...accountants who could not be trusted to add up the pennies in a child’s piggy bank.” “On top of the fraud, bribery and blackmail, there was champagne, sex, juicy divorce cases, a drunken brawl and motoring derring-do. This was no longer a simple story about an electric bus.” Some electrobuses did run on London’s streets. Harrods, the fashionable department...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...account of how the human mind works. According to Bruner: We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. The mind that drives science, art and sense of self, he said, is not linear and logical, but narrative. People think in stories and are able to imagine the world only through stories. It is an idea that...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...account about the love affairs of his author, told as fables and short stories representing all layers of Spanish medieval society. This extract tells us about the boy who wanted to marry three girls. Transcript The Renaissance - Libro de la vida Saint Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582) is one of the most prominent Spanish mystics, who aimed at reforming the Spanish Church and...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...Contained’: Contemporary Fiction and the Science of Sleep.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring 2015, pp. 56-80. It can be found on Project Muse [requires an appropriate account] This article was originally published in the Journal of Literature And Science under a CC-BY-SA-NC-ND licence. You can read the aritcle, with full footnotes, at the JLS website....
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