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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...circulated after last the terrorist attack in London in March shows that opinions are still divided about the authenticity of the emotion that’s expressed online. Can the way in which a message is expressed really invalidate what it’s saying? And are online expressions of grief any less heartfelt when they incorporate novel forms such as hashtags, memes or emoji?...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...circulations of Private Eye, The Spectator and – astonishingly, given its content is available for free online – New Statesman prove that there is an appetite for in-depth coverage beyond the daily headlines which people are willing to pay for. Paper tiger Some hacks on other papers have welcomed the arrival of a new competitor on the basis that it might help revive...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...circulating the fringes of the protest snatching unguarded placards and other items of protest material culture and destroying them, it became clear to me that the most interesting element of the protest was not the speeches and discussions but the iconoclastic violence (by which I mean the deliberate destruction of objects for political reasons) carried out, without...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...circulating as a set of ideas – on the basis of which movements are established, political projects forged and power relations challenged and sustained. A theory of conspiracy theories Where does this leave the psychology of conspiracy theories? Clearly, looking for stable psychological characteristics or cognitive biases that differentiate believers from sceptics may...
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London's 1818 public health crisis
History & The Arts

London's 1818 public health crisis

...circulated unchecked, and they hope the other hospitals will see the necessity of adopting some such arrangement. Indeed, from the indifference to contagion which seems to exist in some these establishments, it is a matter of surprise to your Committee that more fatal results do not occur. Your Committee have learnt with great pain, that in all the Hospitals of London a...
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The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...circulate in the body after the primary adaptive immune response subsides. These memory cells are specifically programmed to recognise the same pathogens that triggered the primary response if they ever get into the body again. Every type of pathogen has at least one (often many more) unique molecules known as antigens in their structure that are not found anywhere else...
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Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...circulation patterns. Imagining a world where ice was denser than water and sank, rather than floated, consider these questions: What might the consequences be for aquatic life? How might denser ice affect small-scale bodies of water, like ponds and lakes? How might denser ice affect oceans? Could denser ice have far-reaching effects on the evolution of life?...Week 2:...
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws

...circulated by the Essex farmers, and which many of them had seen. If the facts stated there,as regarded the free importation of corn, were correct, it behoved them to exert themselves to the utmost for their own salvation. It appeared that the gross produce of agriculture was almost £300,000,000 yearly, whilset the produce of manufactures was £173,000,000, being but...
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