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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...health in relation to sport and fitness animations, and a free course about George Orwell’s 1984. [Blue banner says the world mourns for Queen Elizabeth II] Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral after reigning for 70 years, Liz Truss wins the months-long Conservative leadership race to become Prime Minister, with her new cabinet being the most...
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Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022

...health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral." Her four children, along with her daughters-in-law and Prince William and Prince Harry, travelled to be with her. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's death was announced that evening. She was 96 years old and had celebrated her Platinum Jubilee only a few months...
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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...future robotic missions) may be led by non-governmental organisations. These missions may also choose to land close to sites where water is available for life support or fuel. This all presents a further challenge for Planetary Protection, with a need to maintain Mars as an unspoilt and uncontaminated environment and ensure the health of those humans who visit the planet....
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are...
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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...health and disease conditions in defined populations) to model a zombie outbreak. Their result is that we're all doomed in the event on a zombie outbreak, as dead people (including dead zombies) won't stay dead and will rise to eat more brains. Our only hope is to rapidly and overwhelmingly eradicate any zombie outbreak as soon as it occurs, which would probably involve...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...health advice to wear a mask to limit the spread of Coronavirus becomes a matter for political debate, with politicians and public alike slow to accept the advice that face coverings are a necessary part of the prevention strategy (Ahmad, 2020; Mueller, 2020). Given the vilification of the niqab as symbolic of oppression and subjugation, not only in the UK but across...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...health and social care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also a Black...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...health, infrastructure, public transport, and many other sadly neglected domestic priorities. Eisenhower’s military/industrial complex has not gone away The extreme power of the military/industrial complex which President Eisenhower warned of so eloquently in 1961, now far greater than he could have imagined then, has in the meantime ensured that congressmen who...
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