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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...America offering lie detection services using FMRI. There are also several neuromarketing companies, using FMRI to gain insights into consumer thought and behaviour. How FMRI Works is adapted, with permission, from an article produced by the University of Oxford FMRIB Centre. You can read the full introduction to FMRI on their website. Discover more content like this...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...adaptation of an enormously successful serial novel, or “penny blood”, as this genre of cheap fiction sold in penny parts became known. A rare copy of the original Sweeney Todd story is held by the British Library, together with its second edition, several hundred pages longer with even more gruesome illustrations. Just as contemporary murders helped to fuel interest...
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book – left me thinking about the phenomena of feral children, a topic I had considered in my book about human-animal interactions more generally. Certainly in some exceptional circumstances I can now appreciate how it might be possible for a human child to be cared for by a non-human surrogate. [A female wolf in the snow]...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...adapted to the annual cycle of summer hay cutting and aftermath grazing that has been shaping them for centuries. Since World War II, some 97% of our precious wildflower meadows have been lost, due to agricultural intensification, land use change and development. Floodplain meadows are especially diverse with up to 40 plant species per square metre, supporting a wide...
Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...adapt our built environment for future climates so that we can remain comfortable and safe. Second, every proposed construction project – particularly those which propose the demolition of an existing building - should be required to calculate embodied as well as operational carbon and should be approved only if newbuild is really found to be the lowest carbon solution....
What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?
Science, Maths & Technology

What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?

...adaptable, so it can cope with multiple sudden-onset hazards. Its flexibility is also being enhanced, so that it’s better able to forecast damage before it even occurs. For example, before post-Maria satellite images were even released, the pre-Irma and Maria images were processed and the machine learning folded in building information from Open Street Maps. In a matter...
Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...Adaption: Tyndrum Lead Mine and the German Managers, 1838 to 1865: https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/21752/1/Mills%20proof%20German%20Mine%20Managerspdf.pdf Gold from Highlands mine to be made into Scottish jewellery, The Guardian, 2 January 2020: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/02/gold-highlands-mine-scottish-jewellery Cononish Gold and Silver Mine, Scotland,...
The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues

...adapted her blues artistry to fit and remain relevant. According to Coretta Pitman, Associate Professor of English at Baylor University, Smith’s music stressed ‘independence, fearlessness and sexual freedom, demonstrating that working-class women did not have to alter their behaviour to be worthy of respect’. She also dealt critically with such issues as chain...