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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...Law courses. [A photograph of a lie detector.] In a criminal trial, one thing that jurors often have to do is listen to competing accounts of events given by witnesses and try and work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant and the complainant agree that...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...law and order’ and vague notions of ‘socialism’ to deliberately sabotage normal political discourse. As Abraham Lincoln warned, "a house divided cannot stand".When Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President two days after MLK day, he may well give a speech articulating his own dream of harmony, a desire to shift away from Trump’s American carnage. But this...
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...Laws should protect people from racism – but just as surely as we should also be protected from murder and rape, we know that this goes on all the time. Overt racism is revolting, but covert racism is more damaging – using politically correct terms but failing to treat everyone as equal means that the power gap just widens over time. One way in which we can see this...
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...laws still enforced racial segregation and there was still much opposition to integration and equal rights for non-white US citizens. As such, she had to use the separate restrooms and eating facilities set aside for non-white staff. She was also a woman working in a man’s world, a world where most of the staff wore suit, shirt and tie and left for home each evening to...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...laws and regulations needed major review. In summary, the event was not a natural disaster that was ‘unavoidable’. Far from being natural disasters, reports on the events described above tend to agree on the major causes – poor design, failure of management structures, poor operating standards, poor maintenance, and poor decision making in the lead up, duration and...
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...Law guardians. Nield Chew wrote pieces for the Crewe Chronicle in which she was concerned to direct attention to examples of the inadequate wage and the poor working conditions of a particular class of workers – tailoresses. However, she also developed another way of getting her message across: using the ‘true story’ style of writing...The history of female protest...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...law and politics, visual arts, anthropology. Humanities is unique knowledge confined to a particular culture or society. This is also known as local knowledge, folk wisdom or traditional wisdom. Indigenous knowledge include individuals as well as organisations. Peoples and structures occurs when people seek and develop ideas and mechanisms to manage and overcome the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...Law, the impressive forms of our courts, and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern. The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly...