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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...health – would be a lot better today but for those fraudsters of more than 100 years ago. “If battery power worked for buses then other vehicles might have followed suit”, says Hamer. “In the grand scheme of things, the failure of an electric bus may seem trivial, but it led ultimately to the failure of electric delivery vehicles. The result was a resounding...
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Investment casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Investment casting

...health hazards associated with the process. The “block mould process” is often a more economical process for light castings. Moulds consist of several hundred small components, and are centrifugally cast. Materials: Almost all metals and alloys can be investment cast, but the process is best suited to those materials that are difficult to die cast, forge or machine....
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...health, security, food, water etc lay in the hand of scientists and this was thus the most important language. His challenge was taken up by the renowned literary critic, F.R Leavis, and an acrimonious debate ensued which has re-emerged periodically in letter pages of the quality press until the present day. What are ‘disciplines’? The term discipline implies both the...
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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...the architect of post-war housing failure ignores the deep concern for human comfort and health that underpinned his work. The Modernist architects
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Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...health problems. On the other hand, a small number of elite individuals and their associated corporations have significantly benefited from the exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources. The economic transformation of the Amazon based on the conversion and degradation of its natural ecosystem – its forests – is gaining momentum (see the interactive map from the...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...health services, etc. From this perspective the producers of goods and services within each country are mainly responsible for that country’s emissions, while individuals and households are responsible for only a relatively small percentage of the total. The consumption perspective, on the other hand, considers that the purpose of a modern economy is to provide...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...health provision – are accepting corporate funding, in ways that are not always completely transparent to the public. Terry Goldsworthy explores this practice in his article “Australian police should tread a thin blue line on corporate sponsorship”. The wider and possibly negative implications of sponsorship is also apparent, though more subtley, in its ability to...
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If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Digital & Computing

If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?

...health service of an advanced economy such as the UK would run its critical infrastructure on such an unsafe, antiquated system. But perhaps the most striking aspect of this recent attack is how unsuccessful it has been in terms of generating a ransom. As well as the NHS in the UK, it hit French car manufacturer Renault, US delivery service FedEx, Russia’s interior...
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