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Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...data and how data can tell us something about the state of the economy and whether things are going wrong. That’s a bit like looking at the dashboard of a car. And just as with a car if you’re looking at the dashboard and the red lights are flashing you want to know what can policymakers do to steer the economy back on track. And that’s essentially what Block 2 is...
Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?

...analysis of Bledisloe Cup rugby matches between Australia and New Zealand in 2004, researchers counted an average of nearly 500 collisions in a game: 26 scrums, 200 rucks and mauls, and 270 tackles. In rugby league, the scrums are fewer and less contested, and rucks and mauls non-existent. Tackles, while less frequent, are no less fierce. In 2011, Sydney researchers...
Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...analysis of 12 compression garment studies Hill et al. (2014) concluded that there is evidence that compression garments are moderately effective in enhancing recovery from exercise induced muscle damage. So it would seem that there is some value to using compression garments to aid recovery. Massage [massage ] Massage is commonly used by rugby players to enhance their...
Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
Society, Politics & Law

Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?

...analysis of UK-wide broadcast programming has shown Wales generally, and the assembly specifically, represent only a tiny proportion of the news agenda. [UK wide news programmes viewed by Welsh audience] The survey also found that 11% regularly rely on the internet for news – whether online sites or blogs and Twitter, with 27% using Facebook. We can only speculate about...
Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...analysis can be used to examine the media ecology of tweets, photos, videos and other website content. The extent to which a social movement’s ideas and language gain traction can be measured by examining how ideas from the 15M social media capture the attention of traditional newspapers. Such methods go some way to exploring the impact of a social movement, by building...
Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?

...analysis of Eritrean domestic politics or its destabilising activities in the Horn of Africa. With its asylum and foreign policy in something of a shambles, the British government lacks a coherent approach to the Horn of Africa or towards forced migration in Africa – and as a result it is dependent on EU migration policy initiatives to reduce migration. But as the...
Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story
Science, Maths & Technology

Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story

...the planets formed, and how water and organic matter fit into the picture. We will never complete the jigsaw in my lifetime but continued analysis of samples returned from the depths of the solar system will help us make progress to figuring out where we came from. [The Conversation] This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article....
Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...Analysis of Women's Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing, Feminist Review (1981) 7: 87–107. Mitter, S. (2000) ‘Teleworking and teletrade in India: combining diverse perspectives and visions’, Economic and Political Weekly 26: 2241-2251. Pieterse, J. (2011) ‘Global Rebalancing, Crisis and the East-South Turn’, Development and Change 42 (1): 22-48....