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Editor's note
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Dear reader,
Thank you for following this daily email and engaging with our content through 2018. We, the editors of The Conversation in the UK, wish you and your friends and family a peaceful and joy-filled festive season. We will be publishing fewer articles over the next week or so, though a series of special edition newsletters highlighting some of our themes of the year will be delivered to you inbox.
I have written a blog post that you can read here, which looks at some of the challenges facing the wider media sector and plans we have for The Conversation in coming months. We strongly believe that this project is more important than ever – and our readership numbers suggest that a rapidly growing number of people share this conviction. But still, many people are surprised and excited to learn there is a media outlet that publishes free
to read (and to republish) news analysis, commentary and research for a non-specialist readership, that is written by academic experts. We feel this is a media project that carries real value, driven by a thirst for knowledge, not a need for clicks.
If you share this view and enjoy the work we do, then please forward this email to friends and colleagues and encourage them to sign up for the daily update. Go on, share a little Conversation this Christmas.
All the festive best from everyone at The Conversation.
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Mark Whittingham, Newcastle University
Robins are a much loved Christmas icon, but wind turbines installed in their habitat are affecting their song, with worrying consequences.
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Artist’s impression of the Christmas truce of 1914.
The Illustrated London News of January 9 1915
Martin Clarke, The Open University
Two centuries on, this beautiful prayer for peace still brings people together around the world.
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NASA
Tom McLeish, University of York
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realised a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two millennia ago.
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Stephen Khan, The Conversation
Why The Conversation really is different, both in terms of the funding model and the journalism it produces.
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Science + Technology
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Martin Bencsik, Nottingham Trent University; Michael Ramsey, Nottingham Trent University
Remote sensors allowed us to observe the in-hive activities of honeybees, which could be key to keeping bee colonies worldwide healthy.
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Gareth Dorrian, Nottingham Trent University; Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University
If we didn't correct for gravitational effects on the Earth's orbit, the winter solstice would shift backwards by a day every 72 years.
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Peter Halligan, Cardiff University; David A Oakley, UCL
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains' nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
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Politics + Society
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Craig Berry, Manchester Metropolitan University
The former Chancellor was no economist, but he was better at politics than Theresa May.
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Paul Whiteley, University of Essex
We can use data on public attitudes to help get a sense of whether the UK would vote differently if it got another chance.
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Erica Consterdine, University of Sussex
The UK government has done little to prove how it will continue to attract highly skilled migrants after Brexit.
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Tom Sykes, University of Portsmouth
While Duterte has slaughtered 20,000 Filipinos, he is incapable of attacking people beyond his own borders, whereas US wars have killed up to 4m in the Middle East alone since 1990.
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Emma Carmel, University of Bath
The British government's immigration plans may be long-awaited, but they have not come at a good time.
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Arts + Culture
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Tony Westbury, Edinburgh Napier University
Once again, the Special One has become the Unemployed One. Here's the case for a period of rehabilitation.
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Stephanie Meek, University of Exeter
If you are tired of A Christmas Carol, why not try one of the few Hardy stories where all's well that ends well.
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Nadine Sammy, University of Exeter
Preparation. Focus. Positivity. Think like an athlete to win a Christmas medal.
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Environment + Energy
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Freija Marie Mendrik, University of Hull; Daniel Parsons, University of Hull; Katie Parsons, University of Hull
The world is waking up to the plastic pollution crisis. Here's how you can wake up on Christmas morning to a more sustainable holiday.
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Education
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Elena Hoicka, University of Bristol
British three- and four-year-olds spend around four hours a day on screen time.
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Business + Economy
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Jonathan Perraton, University of Sheffield
A few billion is not a massive amount compared to the government's total budget for the year. But it could significantly help school and police budgets.
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Health + Medicine
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Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow
Instability in the DRC and Ebola's deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
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