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Are things changing in world rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are things changing in world rugby?

...class. In England for example, the sport is strongly associated with independent schools and the establishment (which it is not in Wales, where the sport has traditional links with grammar schools and is more the sport of the people). Whilst rugby league, which contributed some players such as Burgess and Farrell, to the 2015 England team, has strong local, working class...
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Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...variable renewables without a proportionate increase in storage,” Professor Keith says. “We could cut electric sector carbon emissions to less than a third of their current levels using variable renewable, with natural gas to manage the intermittency. But this will require us to keep growing the electricity transmission infrastructure.” This article was originally...
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Reaction injection moulding (RIM) and Reinforced reaction injection moulding (RRIM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Reaction injection moulding (RIM) and Reinforced reaction injection moulding (RRIM)

...variables are mould and monomer temperatures, injection and clamping pressures, material flow rate and density. Close control of these variables is an essential part of the process, lending itself readily to CAM and robotics. Processing parameters vary with material. Clamping force depends on material and projected area of component, but can be as low as 0.4 MPa and is at...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?

...variability largely from climate variability. Sea level has also risen in the last century. In the recent decades, rate of global mean sea level rise has increased; In 2017 the average global mean sea-level was 77 millimetres higher than the 1993’s mean sea level, when the satellite record started. The reason for this rise is due to melting glaciers and ice sheets and...
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Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...class protest, which is called upon or referred to in struggles that have taken place in Glasgow and across Scotland in the late twentieth century and in the early decades of the current centuryActivists and trade unionists have often portrayed the struggles and conflicts in which they are, or have been engaged, as in some way echoing the traditions of Red Clydeside and...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...class. We smashed it, I love them and this meeting is going well. Until. ‘And what about Ellen?’ Brian is looking at me, tapping her name on my planner with the end of his pencil. Ellen Wang (not her real name). I frown. ‘Well, what about her? She’s one of the highest achievers in the class. They’re all brilliant, it’s a top set.’ He nods slowly, but the...
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Article 10 mins
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...de cambio perpetuo y, en la actualidad, nos guste o no, las lenguas están cambiando de manera vertiginosa con los nuevos medios de comunicación. En esta sesión escucharás a una lingüista expresar sus opiniones sobre este tema y luego verás dos nuevas versiones de un clásico de la literatura mundial...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: 1.1 ¿Qué es una lengua...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...class and was not as straightforward as Daunton and Lawrence suggest. To find these variations we need to consider how rooms and stoves were actually used. By examining the lived-experience of space through oral and written testimony, we find a more complex picture of transformation. An examination of 112 childhood memories of working-class families from around Britain...
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