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'A force more powerful than gravity within the Earth': How magnetism locked itself inside our planet

"As the magma cooled to form what is today the world's solid outer crust, magnetism was locked into minerals containing iron, such as magnetite."

LiveScience

Does the Constitution Protect the Right To Get High?

Columbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.

Reason

Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns

Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capital

The Guardian - UK

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The buzz behind ‘rizz’: Exploring Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year

From Twitch and Tom Holland, rizz, a Gen Z slang, has journeyed to the linguistic experts at Oxford University Press

The Hindu

Oxford University Unveils Its 2023 Word Of The Year, With Term Popular Among Gen Z As The Winner

Do you have "rizz"? It's become Oxford's 2023 word of the year.

Bored Panda

What does 'rizz' mean? Oxford word of the year revealed for 2023

THE Oxford University Press word of the year for 2023 has been revealed, but it might be a term a lot of people are unfamiliar with ...

The National (Scotland)

Rizz named 2023 word of the year by Oxford University Press

The colloquial word is short for 'charisma'

Evening Standard

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Before Wikipedia, there was the OED

Salon talks to Sarah Ogilvie, author of "The Dictionary People," about the "unsung heroes" who created the OED

Salon

Mercury: shrinking planet is still getting smaller – new research

Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away. This means that the rock (and, within that, the metal) of which it is composed must have…

The Conversation

Susie Dent: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’

The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’

The Guardian - UK

Study finds how bats evolved to avoid cancer

A new research published by Oxford University Press in Genome Biology and Evolution suggests that rapid evolution in bats may explain the animals' unique capacity to host and survive infections as well as avoid cancer. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Can Traditional Legal Customs Coexist With Western-Style State Law?

Geoffrey Swenson’s book Contending Orders tackles Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.

Reason

These are the best student discounts and freebies available in 2023

Apple gift cards, free eye tests and more...

Australia's first wellbeing framework is about to measure what matters – but it's harder than counting GDP

In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling “Measuring What Matters” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework.

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Sea snakes might have evolved to see colors again: Research

The annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, appears to have evolved to see an extended palette of colours after its ancestors lost that ability in response to changing environments, according to a new paper published in Genome Biology and Evolution…

The Conversation

An element essential to life discovered on one of Saturn's moons, raising hopes of finding alien microbes

Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water seeps out of the rocky core onto the ocean floor – potentially providing nourishment…

The Conversation

Children's book revolution: how East African women took on colonialism after independence

As independence from British colonial rule swept across East Africa in the early 1960s and freedom was won in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, parents and teachers worried about what their children were reading.

Dynamite News

Study: Gender pay disparities begin with job search

Based on new research published by Oxford University Press in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a key component of the wage disparity between men and women is due to how they conduct job searches, with women are more likely to accept job offers early while men tend to hang out…

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Even rats are amazed by this baffling optical illusion

And they respond the same way we do.

The Times of India

OUP to publish a special Bible for King Charles III's coronation ceremony

Ahead of UK's King Charles III's coronation ceremony, which will take place at Westminster Abbey on 6th May this year, news is that Oxford University Press (OUP) has been commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury to produce The Coronation Bible. As per reports, the Coronation Bible will play an important…

The Independent UK

Archbishop receives Charles’s Coronation Bible ready for ceremony

The specially-commissioned King James Bible is hand-bound in red leather and decorated in gold leaf.

The Guardian - AU

‘Making a book is an extraordinary thing’: Pip Williams on the invisible history of female bookbinders

The bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words shares the spark behind her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – filling the ‘blank spaces’ around the women who worked at Oxford University Press

The Conversation

Pip Williams shows how World War I transformed women's lives, in a new novel that captures the 'poetic materiality' of books

Pip Williams describes her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, as both follow-up and companion to her 2020 debut, The Dictionary of Lost Words.

The Conversation

Venus: proof of active volcanoes – at last

Venus is almost the same size, mass and density as Earth. So it should be generating heat in its interior (by the decay of radioactive elements) at much the same rate as the Earth does. On Earth, one of the main ways in which this heat leaks out is via…

The Conversation

Turkey-Syria earthquake: the scandal of not being prepared

The magnitude-7.8 earthquake near Gaziantep that struck southeastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria on February 6, and the large aftershocks that followed, destroyed thousands of buildings and claimed tens of thousands of lives.

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