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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...world’s carbon emissions, plus other environmental problems, such as air and water pollution. SMEs are also important in other ways, including the influence they can have on the environmental behaviours of staff, customers and local communities. [Two people on a motor scooter riding through a flooded urban street at night with illuminated shopfronts] Two people on a...
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The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...world. In 1994 the world, and particularly African countries, looked to South Africa to provide ethical leadership after the end of apartheid. This was boldly depicted in the “African Renaissance” – the cultural, scientific and economic renewal of the continent championed by former President Thabo Mbeki. For a short time, South Africa occupied the moral high ground...
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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...world’s population lives in urban areas. Sustainable Development Goal 11 is devoted to sustainable cities and communities. It will therefore be in towns and cities that most of us experience, and have to respond to, climate change. Urban areas don’t just refer to megacities of many millions of people, but also towns of several hundred or thousand people. Towns and...
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Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...world distorted by violence and insecurity. However, as well as having the capacity to act as a place of safety for refugees, universities are complicit in oppression and exploitation. This matters particularly because this involvement is not historic. Colonialism – which can be thought of as control over power, identity and knowledge – is not a thing of the past....
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Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?

...world users. And just two make use of NHS-accredited ways of measuring the effectiveness of mental health treatments, such as the Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7 questionnaire. This leaves a question over the effectiveness of the remaining 12 out of 14 (85%) of NHS-accredited mental health apps. In 2013, there were 1,536 depression-related apps available for download but...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...world’s political leaders were out in force too, uncomfortably linking arms. A shame that this display of support for the notion that we will not walk in fear was marred by such dreadful hypocrisy. My own response to the wind-bagging on the Charlie Hebdo attacks and other murders was less than charitable, but it still must be said: the opportunism on display from the...
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Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...world offers an enormous diversity of alternatives which mean they can be found in environments on Earth where other organisms could not survive. On Europa, the thick ice layer (4–20 km) prevents any light from reaching the ocean and so, if life is present, it must be sustained by the energy released by chemical reactions such as those described above. Microorganisms...
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The real reason clowns scare us
Health, Sports & Psychology

The real reason clowns scare us

...world over the past few months. I barely noticed it at first, even though I actually study what people find creepy and unsettling. As well as my recent studies of the uncanny valley (a disturbing region where things can be so close to human that they become frightening) I have been fascinated by ghost stories, horror novels and urban legends since I was young enough for...
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