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Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...out more about The Open University's Social Sciences and History courses. [A women worker on the railways, first world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles,...
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Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...out over hundreds of millions of years. Contemporary climate change needs to be broadly understood as the result of interactions between these background ‘natural’ processes, and human interferences in the biosphere, in particular the emissions of greenhouse gases through fossil fuel burning. The West has caused this damage and we are only a small country so I believe...
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Will burnt food give you cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will burnt food give you cancer?

...out that the control group also had surprisingly high amounts of acrylamide in their blood. At first it was thought that burgers might be the source. Then high levels of acrylamide were found in potato products such as fried potatoes, as well as in coffee. It then became clear that acrylamide formation was associated with carbohydrate-rich foods, rather than protein-rich...
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How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...a little earlier, but there are still calculations to be made. The electoral process isn’t quite over for the French. Can they survive the risks of electoral burn-out? For now, at least we can all savour what has been an extraordinary campaign and reflect on where France goes now. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...burning fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, heatwave temperatures could reach an intolerable 55°C in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe. A second study warns that by the century’s end weather-related disasters – floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and windstorms – could claim a 50-fold increase in fatalities, and expose 350...
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Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...out. Additionally, burning oil products as fuel produces carbon dioxide and so contributes to anthropogenic ('human-made') global warming. The central contention of the Living without oil course is that developing alternatives to oil is an essential and urgent task for humanity. Those alternatives will necessarily have to involve both new sources of fuel and new...
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Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun
Science, Maths & Technology

Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun

...burning up, they are evaporating into a plasma, which exists for a split second, before extinguishing. [Black and greyed out painted style image of people walking through a path in a village with some looking up at the sky. There are lots of flecks of white in the sky and the two rows of houses extend back toward the mountain on the horizon.] The 1833 Leonids meteor...
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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...out by National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski is that wildlife will quickly make short work of the zombie hordes, whether it being flocks of crows gorging themselves on conveniently walking stacks of carrion, or all manner of decomposing organisms reducing the zombies to little more than stacks of bones in a few days to a few weeks. This means that if...
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