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Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?

...physical rest will help athletes guard against, but not prevent, burnout when sport returns. Focus on other things. Athletes can be notorious for being shackled to their sport at the expense of everything else. Sport can breed obsession and perfectionism and now can be a time to focus on other pursuits. This may include studying something they are interested in, finding...
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Electroless plating
Science, Maths & Technology

Electroless plating

...parts gears, bearings, crankshafts, pumps, hydraulic cylinders, ball studs and transmission thrust washers. Tolerances on deposit thickness range from 0.25 to 2 µm Competes directly with hard chrome-plating. See Also: Electroplating, Chemical vapour deposition (CVD), Physical vapour deposition (PVD), Thermal spraying, Ion implantation and Plasma nitriding/carburising....
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...physical harm to the environment and living creatures. Potentially harmful plastics in soil could impact health | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) What can you do? Making a few small changes can have a big impact on the amount of plastic we use on a day-to-day basis and how much gets into the environment. 1. Reduce your own plastic use. In the UK we use over 35 million...
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...physical science' (as pursued by the so-called Pre-Socratic Philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and others) and into the abstract realm of ethics and morality. No matter the diversity of the schools which claimed to carry on his teachings, they all emphasized some form of morality as their foundational tenet. That the 'morality' espoused by one school...
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Plasma arc spraying
Science, Maths & Technology

Plasma arc spraying

...is high but very localised. Heat input to the component is very low with the non-transferred arc process, resulting in very little distortion. Surface finish is good for both processes, although better for the non-transferred arc process. See Also: Chemical vapour deposition (CVD), Physical vapour deposition (PVD), Thermal spraying, Electroless plating and Electroplating....
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Goddess Preconceptions: Beyond Fertility, Sexuality and Motherhood
History & The Arts

Goddess Preconceptions: Beyond Fertility, Sexuality and Motherhood

...physical or too sexual to lead religious activities? Ancient Goddesses and Their Roles [Goddess Inanna] Goddess Inanna Hymns to the Sumerian Goddess Inanna praise her beauty and her encouragement of love between couples. She was celebrated for her own romantic attachments with kings and gods. She was even called 'she who loves her own vulva'. But the same hymns and...
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Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...physical breaks in the DNA sequence, turning a long string of nucleotides into two shorter strings. In order to survive it is essential that DNA damage is repaired. The “default” repair mechanism simply re-joins the two molecules, but this is an error prone process and small mistakes are often made. So the combination of breaking and repairing DNA can cause small...
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CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

CSI: Current research into the impact of bias on crime scene forensics is limited – but psychology can help

...physical evidence is used to solve murders in a “whodunit” showdown between deductive cops and crafty criminals covering their tracks. All it takes is the right evidence to piece the story together. But recent research suggests that the reality of forensic analysis is that it can be subjective and fallible. For instance, forensic evidence can sometimes be ambiguous...
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