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The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary
Science, Maths & Technology

The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary

...family Linux like the pet dog comes in many breeds, known as distributions or distros. In the same way that all dogs are descended from wolves all distros are descended from Gnu/Linux and the different types are bred for specific purposes. Linux in everyday life - from smart-phones to supercomputers Linux runs on everything from your workaday wireless router to CERN’s...
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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...history. In many people’s eyes, Gaelic belongs predominantly to the Highlands and (west coast) Islands, but the linguistic division of Scotland along the Highland/Lowland line reflects only the latter part of the country’s long history. Indeed, of recorded Scottish languages, Gaelic defers solely to English with regard to its maximum geographical extent. The only...
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The UK deal with the EU explained: what it says and what it means
Society, Politics & Law

The UK deal with the EU explained: what it says and what it means

...family members of EU citizens who apply to come to the UK, and to limit the payment of child benefit to EU workers who have children in another member state. There will have to be three new EU laws, proposed after the referendum, to make all this happen. Will it go ahead? The European Commission has announced that it will make these three proposals, and the deal says that...
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Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ] Refugees from Iraq arrive on the Greek island of Kos The shipwrecks and deaths in 2015 led to a brief shift in public opinion around migration in the UK and across Europe. British newspapers which are routinely hostile to immigration depicted the deaths at sea as a...
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Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...families – including pets – and claim to boost children’s self-esteem and transform the publishing industry. With a personalised version of Where's Wally, children search for their own faces. Instead of Cinderella’s castle, it is the child’s own castle. The global pandemic has seen the mushrooming of personalised books that help children cope with school...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...families fled their homelands, a mother of twin infants started her journey to seek a safer place. During the journey, a tragedy occurred. Behjat explores these events through a series of drawings in order to reflect on their meaning and make connections to a wider audience. From a Distance, was at the 5th floor of the Switch House at Tate Modern as Part of the Who Are...
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Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...family forms and provide information on risk and protection that goes beyond a focus on opposite-sex sexual behaviour. -End of opinion piece- Why does it matter? The lack of relevant sex education in schools for LGBT youth means that these young people must rely on other sources of information, such as the internet or partners, for this, which can have implications for...
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How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...family and friends live streaming the service. There may also be no family at a service if they themselves are ill. Although we often think of a good death in terms of how a person dies, culturally how the death is marked is another way of determining the value of a person’s death. We are still in challenging and changing times. We don’t know for sure the long-term...
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