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What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
Science, Maths & Technology

What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?

...law of gravitation itself was not tested until British scientist Henry Cavendish did so in 1798, while measuring the density of the Earth. Fast forward to 1916, when Einstein presented physicists with a new way of thinking about space, time and gravity. Building on work published in 1905, the theory of general relativity tied together that what we commonly consider to be...
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RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...law never changed to ban or force grammar schools to close – it just prevented the opening of new ones. They also learned from their own failure in the 1980s and 90s to abolish local authorities and establish more independence for some schools under what was called the grant maintained programme. Following Labour’s landslide election victory in 1997, a new act was...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...Law at The Open University, discusses the rhetoric of the EU Referendum. ...[UK and EU flags overlaid] Boris Johnson tells us in his book, The Churchill Factor, that Winston Churchill ‘wrote an article called “A United States of Europe”; indeed, he is credited with coining the phrase’. Well, yes, Churchill did write about this in the News of the World in 1938 and...
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Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?

...law. EU member states are also bound by the 1951 Refugee Convention to offer protection to genuine refugees. UK migration policy is also confused. Despite setbacks in the courts, the Home Office continues to refuse asylum to genuine applicants and return some so-called “failed” asylum applicants to possible harm in Afghanistan and elsewhere. A policy of granting...
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How do rules on contamination limit our ability to explore space?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do rules on contamination limit our ability to explore space?

...law, and there are fears that they are liable to be be bent or broken on cost-saving grounds. Rather than leave them in place to be broken accidentally or deliberately breached by a “rogue” space agency, it would be better to have less stringent but more practicable protocols. Certainly, as soon as you start sending humans to the surface of Mars, even the 300,000...
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Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...law. By the same token, the EMB produced a poster extolling Lancashire’s cloth exports to India, at the same time as nationalists urged Indians to boycott British materials, spin their own cloth, and aspire to Dominion status or more. The EMB Film Unit’s ongoing influence EMB’s output was not only shown in cinemas and made available for other institutions to hire,...
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Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem

...Law courses. After years of consultations and reports, the Scottish government is proposing to conduct a pilot to test out running rape trials with just a judge – and no jury. The conviction rate in Scotland for rape and attempted rate is woefully low. Only 51% of trials lead to a conviction, which is simply not acceptable in a modern justice system. Reform is clearly...
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People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception
Society, Politics & Law

People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there’s an exception

...Law courses. People are often poor eyewitnesses. Psychologists have been demonstrating this in experiments for years, but the justice system in the UK has been slow to catch on. There have been improvements, but lawyers and judges continue to rely regularly on eyewitnesses to convict or exonerate people accused of crimes – in some cases, they might argue they have...
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