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Centreless grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Centreless grinding

...types of centreless grinding, all of which consist of three basic elements: Grinding wheel: The same types of grinding wheel are used for conventional grinding. Control (or regularity) wheel: This is a conventional rubber-bonded abrasive wheel on the same horizontal centre-line as the grinding wheel, which rotates in the same direction as the grinding wheel with a...
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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?

...type of expression which is light-hearted, even childish. And this association colours the meaning they have in all contexts. For example, when a Cincinnati news station reported a child’s suicide with an emoji of a crying face they were roundly criticised for their insensitivity. And when the singer Cher included a bomb emoji in her tweet reacting to last year’s...
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Sand casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Sand casting

...type of green sand is black. When “natural” sands are used (silica sand deposits containing the clay with which they were found, or sedimentary deposits, the clay acting as its own “natural” binder) other colours are found. For instance, “Bromsgrove Red” is a popular natural moulding sand, dug direct from the ground and delivered to the factory. This type of...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...type of Austrian bread. It used to be baked for one's own consumption, and kept for months. Now it’s sold locally and the similar bread, schwarzbrot, is sold in bakeries. Image: © Uschi Stickler Der Bosniak(en) Bosniak(en) is a savoury roll made with a mix of rye and wheat dough, topped with caraway seeds. Image: © Uschi Stickler Das Kipferl Kipferl, a crescent-shaped...
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If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Digital & Computing

If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?

...type of ransomware. The most successful ones spread through spear phishing emails and target individuals and small businesses, which often do not have back-ups. This ransomware was different in that it spread of its own accord through unpatched systems (systems that had not followed recent warnings to protect against a virus and back-up their files) – as a worm. But it...
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...types of biases influence juror decision making, including but not limited to racial biases and rape myths. Rape myths are false beliefs relating to the act of rape, and the accused and complainer in said trial types. For example, research has found that rape myths are mentioned in some mock jury deliberations, potentially influencing the joint jury narrative needed to...
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Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...type and how they evolve. Finally, this leads to looking at stars that vary in brightness, taking an observation of one such ‘variable star’, and adding your results to those achieved by other course participants to study that star’s brightness fluctuations in greater detail. A unique and ambitious endeavour The course has taken over a year to design and create with...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...types of employment they went into as well as the ones they refused to go into due to prior bad experiences or obvious clashing with their value systems. On the one hand, the adults mostly gravitated towards entrepreneurial or self-employed types of work (i.e., consultants, business owners, etc), jobs that utilised their love for research and knowledge (i.e., academia,...
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