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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...management that they place in doubt the safety culture of the entire industry.” The root causes for these mistakes included regulatory failures. Now, however, the Trump administration wants to increase domestic production by “reducing the regulatory burden on industry.” In my view, such a shift will put workers and the environment at risk, and ignores the painful...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...project, knowing that she had workplace experiences and insights that should not be lost but preserved for future generations of railway workers. This interview was conducted in July 2021. Background I joined the railway in 1977 as a cleaner at the Corkerhill depot, located on the Paisley Canal line, between Glasgow Central and Paisley Canal station in the South West of...
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...manage soils so they store carbon rather than lose it would help avoid dangerous climate change...[Man holds a handful of soil in a field with a spade behind him. ] Climate scientists anxious to find ways to limit atmospheric greenhouse gases have started to look at the ground beneath their feet. They calculate that although the world’s soils already hold 2.4 trillion...
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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...introduction as a student had a significant impact on my own work. When I wrote the proposal for a PhD in literature and science, it originally did not cover any science fiction at all—it was my supervisor, Sally Shuttleworth, who very soon after the start of my PhD convinced me to include science fiction. I am grateful for that, but I also wonder how many other...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Hungary

...Introduction: English Hungarian confectionary cake traditions are modern, most being invented in the last 150 years. These cakes are much celebrated, and local cukrászda (cake shops) are favourite places for people to go. In the cukrászda famous cakes such as Dobos torta and Rákóczi túrós are offered alongside less well-known but equally delicious varieties. The...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...project about? I recently finished writing a book examining movements for independence in Corsica, Poland, America, France, Ireland, and Haiti. Rather than treating each revolution separately, I focus on how contemporaries thought about the legitimacy of independence: what made a claim to self-rule valid, and how they justified separation from foreign domination. By...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...introduction along with a 172 line poem followed by accompanying notes. The nature of the work is clear: it’s a reasoned and passionate response to the perceived ills and injustices of the world by an 18 year old radical. First and foremost the young Shelley issues a pointed condemnation of the militaristic stance of the British establishment, along with stanzas that...
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Beachbrains
Science, Maths & Technology

Beachbrains

...project of Intelligence Realm Inc. intends to create – at least a small – thinking beach. Based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) – the same technology as the basis of the much better known SETI1 project – the aim of the Artificial Intelligence System is to simulate the human brain, in real time. If their current experiments pay...
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