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Title: THINK : Issue 21 : September 2017 Editors: Duca, Edward; Camilleri, Cassi Abstract: THINK is a quarterly research magazine published by the Marketing, Communications & Alumni Office at the University of Malta

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Title: Earth [Editorial] Abstract: Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books,’ said British statesman John Lubbock. University of Malta researchers have also learnt from our planet; this special EARTH focus packs 31 pages chock-full of studies that could transform the Maltese Islands.

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Title: Malta Seismic Network Abstract: The earth’s surface is never still. And that is why over the past three years the Seismic Monitoring and Research Group (Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences), has been placing its ears more firmly to the ground, listening to the smallest vibrations of our Earth.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65343 2020-12-09T07:47:28Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: We still live in a world where being beautiful is vastly important Abstract: Throughout history the concept of ‘beauty’ has been merged with our concept of what is morally ‘good’. Since the Ancient Greeks, who thought that beauty was inherently good and ugliness was inherently evil, we have struggled to move away from this way of thinking. A ‘normal’ individual is usually defined as ‘beautiful’ in some sense, be it through good health, social class, or appearance. Problems arise when the binary emerges, seeing deviations from the norm rejected as ugly, dirty, immoral, and ‘sick’.

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