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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...System as victims, witnesses or perpetrators. However, they may not be immediately recognisable to police officers. There is an important question relating to the reliability of autistic individuals who are witnesses in a forensic setting. Studies have shown that people with ASD can act as reliable witnesses, but they may be more reliant on prompts and cues to help them...
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Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...system, Riccioli reserved the largest craters for those who supported the idea of the Earth as the centre of the Solar System – these included Ptolemy and Tycho (who espoused a hybrid model). Riccioli named the most spectacular crater of all after his predecessor, the German astronomer and mathematician Christoph Klau Clavius (1538 - 1612). At over 230 km in diameter...
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Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering

...system, now overstretched and ineffective in the face of a growing population. The £4.7 billion “super sewer”, currently under construction, will run from Acton to Tower Hamlets – capturing, storing and removing the capital’s raw sewage and preventing the millions of tonnes of overflow that currently contaminate the River Thames each year. The 16-mile long,...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...system that gives parents full control of what can be watched. The problem is, when parents are less technologically competent or are simply unaware that this resource exists, their cherished young are free to watch an undesirable programme whenever they like. Wherever there is regulation, there is subversion, either by the population or the distributor. There will be...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...systems. Secondly, Kant thinks that you must not use other people in ways to which they could not consent. You ought to respect others; you should not use or manipulate them simply as a means to benefit yourself. People should be treated as having dignity, as “ends”, not merely as means. Kant develops a picture of the ideal moral community using this conception of how...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...systems (‘suffering’ in Buddhism) and then we will seek our desirable future (Nirvana), by using Kalyana Mitta to help sort out the root causes (Samudaya) of the climate crisis by looking at the whole complex system. Finally, we apply eight-fold paths (right thinking, mindfulness, etc.,) as our guiding principles (Meggin), steering us to maintain a middle way. [People...
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Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
Society, Politics & Law

Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London

...system of rent controls. Rent increases on apartments are capped for longstanding tenants, and “stabilised” when tenancies change hands to keep them at or below the rate of inflation. But a closer look at the model shows why it can’t be easily exported elsewhere, especially in London. Build, or they won’t come To keep its rent control system working, NYC mayor...
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More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...system or global model at first because of the ‘symptoms’ that they saw—global warming, more violent storms, changing seasons. The answer to why these phenomena, was boiled down to excessive carbon in the atmosphere, which can be minimised by carbon absorption by plants,” Cruz tells SciDev.Net. “The cooling effect of forests, on the other hand, could be observed...
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