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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...institutions that played a key role – developing, constructing and installing the sensitive mirror suspensions at the heart of the LIGO detectors that were crucial to this first detection. The technology was based on our work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...institutions of this country on a firmer basis, and that the passing of this measure will tend to increase the loyalty and contentment of a great proportion of Her Majesty's subjects’. The challenge for the people of the United Kingdom in the European Union referendum on 23 June is indeed whether to hold on to nurse’s hand or to take a leap in the dark but the Leave...
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Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...institutions. Why ‘small’ might still be beautiful I have again selected three (closely-related) arguments for remaining independent: Independent enterprises can preserve important founding values, particularly when they’re rooted in a locality or in particular values-based organisational forms, such as family firms, cooperatives and social enterprises in...
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What might the Trump presidency be like?
Society, Politics & Law

What might the Trump presidency be like?

...institutions, and despise the country’s elites – and yet, in their search for an honest champion, they have gladly invested their confidence in Trump. Onward and downward Never mind the gridlock that has dogged the government during the Obama administration – what’s coming now will be deeply ugly. Trump’s campaign has radically upped the ante for distemper and...
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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...What do you think makes a good citizen? Does it sometimes necessitate the questioning and challenging of laws and customs? Question: Does this installation make you think differently about citizenship? If you’re interested in these kinds of debates, you might be interested in The Open University course Understanding politics: ideas and institutions in the modern world....
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Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...institutions and actors, yet has the capacity to interact and change over time as new generations arrive. Ties that bind, with some important disputes Labour people have different understandings of the party’s ethos, and these affect their views and actions with regard to its political direction. Depending on their relative strength, these alternative understandings can...
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What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?

...institutional beacon of excellence and integrity in the context of the “capture” of other state bodies – had held that the speaker of the National Assembly had the discretion to order a secret ballot in exceptional circumstances. Since the ruling, a number of ANC MPs have gone public with testimony of intimidation and even death threats in the case of Makhosi Khoza....
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...institutions. It worked. 676,966 voted YES, with a huge 82% turnout, delivering a 2:1 triumph and an overwhelming mandate for progress. It changed my life, because I then became a continuous supporter of the peace process through Stratagem the political consultancy I set up to deepen and broaden the political process and its new structures; little did I predict, however,...
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