UK's oldest person Gladys Hooper turns 113 - BBC News: The UK's oldest person, Gladys Hooper, is celebrating her 113th birthday.
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Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics. Nature News.
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Delhi embraces car restrictions on key working day - BBC News: The first full day of car restrictions in the Indian capital, Delhi, is largely observed - but how it affects pollution remains to be seen, writes Atish Patel.
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Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago - Slashdot
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Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys can be cracked with specialized hardware, illustrating how difficult it is to secure hardware in someone else's possession.
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The idea that there is a welfare-dependent underclass is wrong: A new book by John Hills explores key issues in the current debate about ‘welfare’ and the welfare state. The debate contrasts a stagnant group of people benefiting from it all with the rest who pa…
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A wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to private developers: The new housing and planning bill is a raft of dangerous measures that will increase inequality and solely benefit the private sector
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What top researchers discovered when they re-ran the numbers on income inequality
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The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
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Bed blocking in Cornwall increases by 69% as new scheme fails - BBC News: A new health scheme designed to reduce the rate of hospital bed blocking instead sees figures soar by 69%.
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Building the 21st century scientist : Nature News & Comment
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Exercise-based rehabilitation for coronary heart disease | Cochrane
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Cross-party NHS commission proposed to review health and care funding in England - Hospital Dr: A cross-party NHS commission to review future funding and structure of health and care services in England, will be proposed in the House of Commons.
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Reinventing the Toilet for a Healthier City: New models can provide clean drinking water, create fertilizer, cut down on energy costs, and improve sanitation in the developing world.
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Social norms interventions are not effective enough on their own to reduce alcohol use or misuse among university or college students | Cochrane
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Storm Frank: What have we done to make the flooding worse? - BBC News: Floods have caused havoc across much of the UK. Have decisions made by the public and politicians alike made things worse?
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Phrase of the day: Sympatric speciation - the process through which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the same geographic region.
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'Darwin's puddle' shows how new species can emerge without geographic separation
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New book: “Inequality – What can be done?” – Tony Atkinson
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The state of gaming in 2016: Here’s what to expect | ExtremeTech: As the year comes to a close, our focus shifts to 2016. The consoles have a solid install base new, long-awaited VR helmets are making their way into the hands of consumers, and we're finally seeing new games instead of just sequels....
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