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Why UK farmed animals could be among Brexit’s unexpected winners?

September 15, 2022November 30, 2022 Emma Gordon 0 Comments

Although a subsection of people has been arguing forcefully for animal welfare for a long time, it has only really been recently that the idea that we should alter our lifestyles, policies, and practices to accommodate the welfare of animals has caught on.

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Forecasting: How and why social sciences can attempt to predict the future

September 8, 2022November 30, 2022 Ines Fernandez 0 Comments

Forecasting can be used to produce evidence for or against a theory by asking, for instance, “if a given theory of international relations were true, what would that predict for the Russia-Ukraine conflict?”

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Cults and love: The curious backstory of altruism

September 1, 2022September 16, 2022 Céline Galletti 0 Comments

We are all familiar with the concept of altruism. And yet, when looking up the definition and doing some research around it, I found out that the term “altruism” is actually a contemporary concept of the 19th Century that doesn’t mean exactly what you would think.

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Don’t Look Up: How can fiction spread awareness effectively?

September 1, 2022October 12, 2022 Camille Fayet

The new Netflix addition takes place in modern-day America and is based around the discovery of a comet that is going to hit the earth, destroying humanity in its wake 6 months from now. We embark on the journey of a team of scientists to fight misinformation, political polarisation and prioritisation of corporations over safety.

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The case against eating meat
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The case against eating meat

November 29, 2022December 9, 2022 Matthew Adelstein 0

Throughout history, many practices that have been accepted as normal have been horrendously immoral. Our modern society is not exempt from the possibility of similar grievous errors – and I believe that many of us, in our food choices, are making a similar moral error. This moral error we make in our culinary choices is meat consumption.  

Incentives and Uncertainties: How might governments seek to advance AI?
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Incentives and Uncertainties: How might governments seek to advance AI?

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Emma Gordon 1

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