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How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...style efforts at what security sources call ‘penetrative assaults’, by holding vehicles at a safe distance from the building fabric itself. Most of these barriers are in the middle of pavements – so that they protect only the few pedestrians likely to be inside the barrier, not those exposed on the road-side of it. The UK homeland security services have previously...
What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?

...profile events for Super Saturday (31st July) and Golden Sunday (1st August) that includes the 100m finals. Four new sports and new competitors to look forward to Four new sports, surfing, climbing, karate, and skateboarding have been introduced to cater for a younger audience and to keep the Games relevant to all generations. Also, softball and baseball return to the...
Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

...profile even more. Consequently, this could snowball netball into growing new audiences, helping the sport to grow and women’s sport to become even more popular. To encourage the team’s performance, Karen Atkinson MBE joined as Forest’s Technical Advisor in July 2024 (Nottingham Forest, 2024). Atkinson, a former England Captain with 122 caps, brings extensive...
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...style, and was and is identified with the commercial and the opportunistic. Where Soane is essentially a purist, refining and romanticizing Neoclassicism, Nash is associated with eclecticism, which by contrast privileges asymmetry and recklessly mixes forms, motifs and details from different historical periods and styles. The Pavilion itself has been called silly,...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...et al., 2020) – more on that later. We identified a group of microorganisms – sulfur-oxidising bacteria – that live in the springs. These bacteria produce the energy they need to survive by oxidising sulfur. This group hadn’t been considered as organisms that could be viable on Mars but knowing they are capable of surviving under conditions that are very similar...
Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...style of many of these buildings was novel to me in its modern adaptation, yet very effective. The delicate detail of ornament contrasted admirably with the broad fronts and noble façades which they adorned. A church with two very lofty towers of white marble, with their fretted cones relieved with cerulean blue, gleamed in the sun; and near it was a pile not dissimilar...
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...styles and genres demand different methods and techniques of listening, but generally speaking, the act of listening needs to be carried out when there is nothing around to distract you. The ability to listen to music in this way will undoubtedly help you to focus and concentrate on many aspects of the music. I would certainly challenge anyone to appreciate fully a...
Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...et al. (2014) concluded that there is evidence that compression garments are moderately effective in enhancing recovery from exercise induced muscle damage. So it would seem that there is some value to using compression garments to aid recovery. Massage [massage ] Massage is commonly used by rugby players to enhance their recovery between matches, for example, the England...