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How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does earthquake science help us track North Korea's nuclear tests?

...System with over 50 seismic monitoring stations to detect nuclear tests anywhere on Earth. This system doesn’t just use seismometers. Infrasound instruments listen for very low frequency sound waves, inaudible to the human ear, generated by potential nuclear explosions in the atmosphere; hydroacoustic instruments listen for sound waves travelling long distances through...
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...system less hostile and more humane. ...Britain’s increasingly brutal regime of “migration control” has come to a head. After almost two years as home secretary, Amber Rudd resigned on April 29, apologising for misleading parliament of deportation targets, amid public revulsion at the treatment of British people who had come from the Caribbean half a century ago....
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Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...system and impaired concentration and attention. All of these symptoms can affect performance, but losing focus could lead to making mistakes with devastating consequences to a team. The tap drips – drip, drip, drip [dripping limescale tap] It may be difficult to understand how footballers with huge support teams, who seem to spend time playing and training for an...
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Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...systemic racism in the publishing industry requires systemic changes. Swapping a White child with a Black child does not change the rules of the publishing game. Most popular personalised books portray children as the heroes and stars of their own stories. This might be empowering to some, and insulting to other, children.Most popular personalised books portray children...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change behaviours. But intervening on the social/political level is more...
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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...system (4.24 light years away), where recently a single planet was discovered, has 12% of the sun’s mass and is an ordinary (not ultracool) red dwarf. Telling transits In 2010, a group of scientists began monitoring the closest dwarf stars using a robotic telescope in Chile called TRAPPIST (the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). They were hoping to...
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...system. It undermined it further via fake news and by capitalising on reports of his opponents’ impropriety. To divert from his own lack of trustworthiness, he employed gas-lighting, ie getting people to doubt their own perspective, and denial. Minimisation/normalisation were also used to dismiss allegations about his own conduct and replacing any concerns about this...
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...system itself highly problematic. However, the one aspect of the asylum process which has drawn most attention recently is that of immigration detention, perhaps the most widely recognised area of contention in the British asylum system. While the plethora of in-depth research on this area can be found elsewhere (see Border Criminologies), it is worth saying that around...
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