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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...concepts. This gives them enormous space and leverage to provoke us with questions we normally wouldn’t consider or have the time to reflect upon. Clancy has a rich history of collaboration with medical researchers, surgeons, doctors and patients. Her video work (a collaboration with artist Helen Pynor), The Body is a Big Place (2011), was created in consultation with...
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Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?
History & The Arts

Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?

...concept of the hero that they try to use their powers for good. It caused controversy when Superman killed the villainous General Zod at the end of the last Superman film, Man of Steel, because part of Superman’s mythos is that he doesn’t use his powers destructively. Having Superman kill, even for the greater good, made many fans unhappy, and it would be unthinkable...
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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...concepts they have not yet heard the word for. Later they are likely to encounter the appropriate words. As they develop their knowledge of a language, children also use this language to learn about the world. In formal educational contexts, spoken interaction is also vitally important for learning. Learners speak to their teachers and to their peers. Amongst the kinds of...
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Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...concept that ebbs and flows over time. The real pains of imprisonment are to be found in the denial of personal autonomy, feelings of time consciousness, and the lack of an effective vocabulary to express the hardship of watching life waste away. It is also clear that custody is experienced differently by young people. Young people are emotionally vulnerable and more...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...concept, ending with the bonnet lamp, where the bonnet around the gauze protects it from damage (Figure 1). The illumination is very poor even with the modern safe lamp, and it is now only used for testing for gas - mainly in other countries, with the demise of deep-mining in the UK. Through the Victorian era, there was increasing demand for improved illumination,...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...concept is understood in society. It’s a technique commonly employed in propaganda. So ‘torture’, for example, which has distinctly unpleasant connotations, will, when a government wants to gloss over its ethical shortcomings, be replaced by ‘enhanced interrogation’ which sounds much more bureaucratic and generally neutral. The same applies to the term...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...concept of HIV stigma has itself been transformed: HIV stigma has been metricised. Like all diseases, HIV has bio-medical, interpersonal and social/political dimensions. The challenge for public health systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is...
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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...conception shows what the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and distances from the star. NASA/JPL-Caltech Transits reveal exoplanets’ sizes rather than their masses, but mass can be deduced when, as in the TRAPPIST-1 system, there are slight irregularities in transit timings attributable to neighbouring...
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