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World Cup 2026: it looks like a lucky dip tournament!
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Cup 2026: it looks like a lucky dip tournament!

...and should get through to the knockout stages. England appointed Thomas Tuchel, a German coach, with the specific aim of winning the tournament for the first time in 60 years so there is pressure on the squad to deliver. Tuchel chose a slightly controversial squad with some big name omissions and surprise inclusions, and they will look to win a group with Croatia, Ghana and Panama as challengers. It is impossible to ......
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...course, has all sorts of overtones . RH: Exactly, I'm leaving it to you to define. RT: Maybe when I was younger I could be classified as an environmentalist. I was a member of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and all those things. Later on I became an environmental scientist. I guess I was interested in how these things work, particularly how environmental...
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Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...Dots] Download video transcript References Froebel, F. (1826) The education of man. (Translated from the German by Jarvis 1885). New York: A. Lovell and Company. Holt, L. and Philo, C. (2023) ‘Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?’, Children’s Geographies, 21(5), pp. 819–831. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2130684....
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Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world
History & The Arts

Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world

...course, not all migrants choose to join an ethnic association. But the reach of these organisations was wider than traditional studies suggest. This is because ethnic associations are not simply about celebrating a group’s culture or reminiscing about the past – although they did do that too, with traditional dinners and other festivities, which continue to this day....
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of our sun (shown in the computer visualisation below)....
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Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...course, is well known as one of the more colourful characters in the history of astronomy and as one of the greatest of the pre-telescopic observers. Tycho’s detailed observations of the position of Mars, meticulously recorded over many years in the latter part of the 16th century, were used by Kepler in developing his laws of planetary motion. It is completely...
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...German, Italian and Russian, and has been interpreting for 30 years. In between translating she told me about word order, another challenge that interpreters face daily. “With German the ‘nicht’, the ‘not’, can come at the very end of the sentence. So you may be enthusing about something and then the speaker finally says ‘nicht’. But if you’re a German...
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Exploring Online Harm Against Women and Girls: Your Body, My Choice
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring Online Harm Against Women and Girls: Your Body, My Choice

...German. Mia is a highly accomplished Black journalist who experiences misogyny and technology-facilitated violence and pursues different avenues of help and redress. Her character exemplifies a lived reality of technology-facilitated abuse and women’s experience of online harms – feelings of anger, frustration, even hopelessness, combined with disbelief in their...
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