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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...technology/science/chemistry/introduction-polymers/content-section-0 Smith, J. (2014) UNEP Year Book 2014 emerging issues update ‘Plastic Debris in the Ocean’, [Online].Available at http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2014/PDF/chapt8.pdf (Accessed 10 August 2016). Welden, N., How your pile of laundry fills the sea with plastic pollution, available at
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Going Public

...technology listing “Chinext”, the so-called “Chinese Nasdaq”. Nevertheless, these bourgeoning stockmarkets face difficult growing pains. This includes stiff global competition and the finding the appropriate level of regulation. In the Chinese case, lack of transparency and charges of political bias in deciding who gets to go public have led many of its tech...
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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...technology as a tool to tell better stories. See the potential to hack anything. Right now I’m looking at Pokemon Go and saying, how can we tell news stories like this. Maybe we direct people with smartphone cameras to breaking news events like gamers are flocking to animated creatures. However, the legal implications of this innovative storytelling remain to be seen,...
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The psychological impacts of climate change
Nature & Environment

The psychological impacts of climate change

...technological means and political consensus grows to make our societies more sustainable. What is needed now is collective, courageous action to drive things much further. What we can do It’s clear what must be done to achieve COP26’s lofty goals: stop extracting and burning fossil fuels right now, protect and restore forests and natural habitats, and give developing...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...technological advances in 3D printing processes allow jurors to examine highly detailed physical replicas of human skeletal remains. This additional haptic processing of traumatic evidence provides a more personal, intimate, and potentially traumatic engagement with victims as jurors can directly touch victim injuries. Prior trauma amongst individual jurors may be raked...
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Is there life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Mars?

...technologies, but this does not mean that we do not have an arsenal of other techniques to try and find those pesky critters. The cascade of the chemical reactions of life is messy and leaves a series of footprints in the environment when it happens, what we call biosignatures – these can range from minerals, to organic molecules, or gases, just to mention a few. Gases...
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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...in design and technology. If I to report back again in five years time I hope that I will find that this tough but vital topic has also inspired some of the best innovations in television. This piece is based upon a report written by Joe on Climate Change and Television, published by the International Broadcasting Trust and funded by the JJ Charitable Foundation....
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...technological change’s pace and scale mean a trend of changing relationships at work. This trend points to a future of increasingly automated, disaggregated forms of working (e.g., working as part of temporary teams that are geographically separate). In addition, the projected skills gaps mean that there will be an increasing need for employees to retrain throughout...
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