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How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...an unbelievable scale”. [The Conversation]As a direct result of Trump’s actions, what could have been a week of triumph as the international community came together to enact harsh sanctions on North Korea has instead perhaps drawn us one step closer to the tragedy Mattis predicted. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...trustworthy bridges when one cannot trust just any crook, neighbor, or politician, even when multiplexity brought the spheres of organized crime together. This article is based on the paper Trust Thy Crooked Neighbor: Multiplexity in Chicago Organized Crime Networks in American Sociological Review and was originally published under a CC-BY-NC licence by the LSE USAPP Blog...
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Thinking Outside the Box
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Thinking Outside the Box

...articles about community initiatives, petitions or activist campaigns, but the role of the individual and the small actions get easily overshadowed. I believe in small actions contributing to change and trying to empower people to take whatever small steps are suitable to them at the time. Not everyone can take part in marches or withstand crowds and meanwhile the...
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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...article is based on my personal experiences as a PhD researcher working in both literature and science and science fiction studies, as I investigate the many different ways in which stories are constructed around quantum physics —in popular science, in canonical literature, and in science fiction. The 2015 British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) conference in...
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How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...to shape today’s debates about how to balance personal dietary freedom with the health of the body politic. The seductive promise that, collectively and individually, we can somehow eat our way to health and economic well-being remains a powerful component of our neoliberal world. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...permitted, hyper-security tends to become permanent. If we want a humane and accessible public realm and a genuinely open society, we should not let the exceptional become the norm as we seek more adaptable and effective ways of coping, in a calm and measured way, with urban terrorism. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
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After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...in Sierra Leone – and another is always a very real possibility. [The Conversation]Supporting the public health system should be a priority for the international aid effort in Sierra Leone. After all, relatively little can go a long way – as long as efforts target the right things. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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