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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...type-forms, the use of modest markers – such as potted shrubs – to highlight nondescript places and designing sites so their use can change and expand. The aim is to facilitate a city that is porous, incomplete and multiple. Sennett therefore advocates co-production of plans by experts and publics until the moment when the professionals ‘exit’ and the community...
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Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...types of learning offered through the refreshed BBC Bitesize, the maths sing-alongs with Karim Zeroual and the CBBC’s Hacker T. Dog, and the reading we did with Oti Mabuse and Tom Hardy. Despite the celebrity names, teachers were included, patiently explaining how to sound out letters and words when there you were thinking you’d been a reading expert for years....
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...type of sensor that captures images using the holes left behind by electrons to capture the image, instead of the electrons themselves. Another involves better processing of the images to counter the damage caused by radiation. Jupiter has trapped radiation belts of high energy electrons, creating an extremely harsh environment to perform science in.Understanding such...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...type of academia coming from that. A lot of the big growing area of cycling research is quite ethnographic, because it really touches the way that people, almost inadvertently, because it is a thing that even when they’re not doing their research they’re probably still a bike rider. So, one of my most interesting meetings whilst I was in America was with a number of...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...types of leaders, such as charismatic leaders, who rely on strength of personality and vision to increase the performance of their followers. However, like other forms of leadership, charismatic leadership can have a dark side that takes followers down a slippery slope towards deviant behaviours. But purposeful leaders are comparatively rare; when we asked a cross section...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Germany
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Germany

...types in Germany. German families buy their bread in one of many bakeries found on German high streets, either independent or part of local chains such as Dat Backhus or Nur Hier in Hamburg. Rye bread is the most popular. It can be made of pure rye flour or with mixed flours, with or without grains and seeds. On a Sunday afternoon it's quite typical to sit with friends...
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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...typing letters. [Stobhill hospital sign] Medical Secretaries Campaign June 2000- August 2001 In early 2000 Medical Secretaries raised the disparity informally with local management. Several months later in June 2000, having made no progress they submitted 165 individual formal grievances. A protracted grievance process followed which other than raising awareness of...
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...type of activity, but the researchers say the radio pulses are unlike anything ever seen from other similar stars. Perhaps more likely is that the signals originate closer to home – arising as interference from a high altitude, Earth-orbiting artificial satellite which happened to pass through the field of view of the telescope during the observations. However, such a...
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