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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...article by researchers at the University of Manchester and other UK institutes claimed that ‘by the end of the second week in April, 29% of the population may already have had the disease’. Many newspapers jumped on this news, which suggests that 19 million out of the 67 million UK residents have already been infected with COVID-19, with survivors now having immunity....
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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...article. References Kirsty Hughes (ed) ‘An Independent Scotland in the EU: Issues for Accession’, The Scottish Centre on European Relations, March 2020, available at: www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-03/An%20Independent%20Scotland%20in%20the%20EU.pdf Drainey, N. ‘Meet the Scots who can’t wait to finish Brexit and get out of the...
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What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...article...Applied psychology is a way to think about things in a different way. Applying psychology at work in a timely fashion can prevent work-related psychological problems (e.g. poor mental health, productivity), as well as improve overall functioning within organisations (culture, relations, productivity and wellbeing). [neon sign - think about things differently]...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...et al., 2013) compiled from different observations with labels of important locations. The proposed new mechanism is called Marine Ice Cliff Instability (MICI), not to be confused with the established Marine Ice Sheet Instability (MISI) which are both positive feedback loops (science slang for a self-sustained process: if the result is undesired, as in this case, you can...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...et al, 2014 and Burdett, M. 2018). The UK government only agreed on funding for 2015 to 2021 of £1.2bn for coastal erosion and sea-flooding projects despite the projected need of that the UK will be £1bn a year for 50 years on river and sea defences (Environment Agency, cited by The Guardian, 2019). The UK government has prioritized areas of high population such as...
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Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...articles and videos which work as stimulus materials to bring citizens into dialogue with the latest policy and discursive governance. These materials relate to the actions of national and supra-national government institutions such as the European Commission. Performance artist and writer Bojana Janković explores how art can question and challenge notions of displaced...
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Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...with hard-to-grasp matters using methods informed by a different epistemology. The ways I have endeavored to know about social phenomena can only be approached via this multi-layered research approach integrating the psyche and the social. This article was originally published by the Methods In Motion blog, where it can read with full footnotes More on Methods in Motion...
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Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and Grinding (EDG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and Grinding (EDG)

...article ] Electrical discharge grinding Electrical discharge grinding is similar to electric discharge machining, but with the tool in the form of a rotating conductive wheel and with lower currents. [Diagram to demonstrate 'Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and Grinding (EDG)' - see article ] Manufacture: An alternative to ultrasonic machining (USM) and...
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