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How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...human ability to survive for long periods of time without sustenance. Due to obvious ethical concerns, there is not a whole lot of credible scientific data on the topic of starvation and survival. Instead, there are many accounts of either voluntary or involuntary cases of complete or near-complete starvation that allow us to make some very general conclusions. One of the...
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Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...human rights. In fairness, there seems to be some acknowledgement that the terms of a hard Brexit would be economically painful, but this is typically justified because of a confidence in the long term prospects, and Britain’s influence in the world as a former colonial power. Even among Leavers, there is little good news about the immediate economic impacts. The...
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Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
History & The Arts

Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s

...Human Traffic (1999), as the first Welsh feature film to offer a true break with the past and provide a new way to imagine being young and Welsh as we approached the millennium. This break with a traditional representational past was picked up in one of the film’s early reviews: Just as Trainspotting makes a clean break with the traditional Scotland of tartanry and...
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Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...human numbers will stabilise in the next couple of decades. They argue that a combination of economic development, and better access to healthcare and education, especially for women in the Global South, has brought down birth rates and that population will stabilise within a couple of decades. The ‘population bomb’ argument that the BBC’s documentaries had helped...
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Rwanda: an open and shut case?
Society, Politics & Law

Rwanda: an open and shut case?

...Human Rights (ECHR). Under section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), public authorities must comply with the ECHR. The definition of ‘public authorities’ includes ‘any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature,’ which in this case referred to the UK’s Home Secretary, in their capacity as a Government minister. If the UK Government...
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Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...human prejudices around race and gender. This would further exacerbate the cultural divisions and the growing inequality caused by present-day globalisation. Nevertheless, they also have the potential to foster entirely new and exciting forms of empowerment. It could create "smarter" societies that substantially increase human capabilities. Continued advances in virtual...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...humans. Even after the computerised training process was complete, ChatGPT often produced rambling, incoherent or irrelevant results. People were brought in to fine-tune its responses. They taught ChatGPT how to answer certain types of queries, to structure its answers, to correct it when it was wrong and – crucially – to be safe. Huge efforts were made to teach...
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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...human-induced climate change is likely to intensify the processes of coastal change. Beaches and soft cliff faces are easily eroded by storm waves and surging tides; farmland and precious habitats, homes and property are lost to the sea. Sound is one of the most powerful ways in which places are experienced through the senses. Whereas eyes can be closed and vision can be...
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