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How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...an unbelievable scale”. [The Conversation]As a direct result of Trump’s actions, what could have been a week of triumph as the international community came together to enact harsh sanctions on North Korea has instead perhaps drawn us one step closer to the tragedy Mattis predicted. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do Christmas lights interfere with your wifi signal?

...communication regulator warns that your twinkling festive lights might be blocking your wifi signal. Really? Andrew Smith explains why it shouldn't keep you awake worrying...This content is associated with The Open University's Physics courses and qualifications. When Ofcom, the UK’s independent telephony regulator, released a wi-fi checker app for your smart phone,...
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World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network

...community to take some notice of them. “I raised it to make the problem more obvious – though I do not know why politicians continue to be so blind to it.” He said evidence of the impacts of climate change was plain to see: “You need only to fly over some of the areas that are being affected – like the Naga Hills on the border of India and Burma, or vast areas...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...community is needed to address the climate crisis. But when one million plastic bottles are bought every minute we can all certainly do our bit on an individual level to make our lifestyles more sustainable and change our consumption patterns so that businesses and governments have to adapt. We are more likely to do something if we feel it is important. Reading books...
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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...communicating more extensive information through clearer labelling to allow consumers to understand how their purchases achieve real benefits in addressing the harms caused by the social, environmental and economic impacts of business. Enforcing standardized labelling across the textile and clothing sector might also generate a deeper understanding and greater amount of...
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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...communities. Like all buildings, those with heritage value need to be retrofitted to dramatically reduce carbon emissions. Heritage buildings: the challenges and opportunities Heritage buildings often can’t be retrofitted using standard solutions. Their traditional construction requires different approaches to modern buildings, and the heritage values invested in these...
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Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...but as a New Life Conception. London: Walter Scott. Zahab, M.A. (2007) ‘“I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise”: the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)’ in Rao, A., Bollig, M. and Böck, M. (eds) The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, pp. 133-158....
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Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...community Christmas presents the hard task of showing cheerfulness and fortitude under very difficult circumstances. Bitter poverty has befallen many of the members, others have the greatest difficulty in making both ends meet, while few indeed find their business prospering. But Stock Exchange men have always been "sportsmen" in the best sense of that much-abused term....
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