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  • 18 Jul 2016
    Professor Roger Barry discusses climate change in polar regions
    Roger Barry

    How is climate change affecting Polar Regions? Part 2 – Professor Roger Barry

    What is the most exciting research going on at each of the Poles currently? In the Arctic there are major efforts to understand the drivers of the irregular decline in sea ice extent and thickness since the 1980s-90s. Multiple sensors (satellite and buoys) provide high-resolution data spanning 35 years and sparse historical records, from whaling […]

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  • 15 Jul 2016
    David Crystal

    Speaking Shakespeare Today

    You can’t speak English without speaking Shakespeare. Not only did he introduce several hundred words still used today (assassination, beguiling, contaminated, domineering, excitement, fixture, go-between, hostile, ill-tempered, lack-lustre, monumental…), he gave us dozens of idioms. If you stand with bated breath, say that love is blind, worry about green-eyed jealousy, think that truth will out, […]

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  • 15 Jul 2016
    Pokemon go
    John Suler

    Pokémon GO, GOING, GONE

    If your mind hasn’t already been totally numbed by tech news, consider pointing it towards the newest phenomenon that everyone is talking about: Pokémon GO.  I won’t bother taking the time to describe how it works, because by now the odds are that you already know. You probably already know that experts and non-experts alike […]

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  • 5 Jul 2016
    Waller Newell

    Is Donald Trump a Fascist?

    Waller R. Newell compares and contrasts Donald Trump with the infamous fascists discussed in his book TYRANTS.

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  • 5 Jul 2016
    Daniel Blue

    Who Were the People Who Shaped Friedrich Nietzsche?

    Daniel Blue’s The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity 1844-1869  explores the famed German philosopher’s first formative 24 years of life. Browse through this interactive family tree to learn about Nietzsche’s assorted relatives. To learn more about each individual relatives, click on each family member’s square.

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  • 4 Jul 2016
    Professor David Walton discusses climate change in polar regions
    David W H Walton

    How is climate change affecting Polar Regions? Part 1 – Professor David Walton

    Professor David Walton, Cambridge author, Editor of Antarctic Science and Emeritus Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey talks about climate change in the polar regions and what opportunities there are to address climate change holistically. Come back next Monday to hear more from other top scientists in polar and climate science!

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  • 30 Jun 2016
    Jeffrey C. Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese, María Luengo

    Questioning the “Crisis” of Journalism

    Jeffrey Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese and Maria Luengo consider the crisis faced by modern journalism, focusing on a different perspective and providing a somewhat less gloomy conclusion. The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered is available to buy now.

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  • 30 Jun 2016
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    Roel Snieder, Jen Schneider

    Can you be both Productive and Happy?

    Jen Schneider and Roel Snieder, authors of The Joy of Science, 2016 present two of the warning signs of overworking and what you can try to get back in harmony.

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