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Climate of fear: culture of hope
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Climate of fear: culture of hope

...technology. So public opinion is vital, both in demanding action over change and in accepting the consequences of that change. Shifts in public opinion can result from activism, public awareness campaigns and propaganda. But one of the most potent agents for change is culture. Which is why the climate crisis is an issue that’s closely bound up with language, with...
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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...technological miracle is ultimately only a moving statue. She is a simulacrum which in Latin can mean sculpture, substitute, likeness and ghost. When the vampire Spike commissions April’s inventor to produce a Buffy robot to satisfy his passion for the Slayer (his natural nemesis) it raises all kinds of questions about the dead, the undead and the never alive in the...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...technology, is a boom activity and I know some very sane people who have become totally obsessive about it. Everybody has a history, not just the famous or the infamous. [World War I soldiers [Posed by actors]] In the last few years local history societies have sprung up all over the country. There is hardly a town or community that now has not had at least one history...
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Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds

...technologies and approaches, or even require a change to the conditions considered as the limits for life. Since Cassini analysed the gas and ice in Enceladus’ plumes during a series of passes through them, suggestions for future sample return missions have also been made. Any such plans would attract the most stringent Planetary Protection requirements (Category V),...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...technology-brokering, collaboration, dialogue and reflexivity are all important features. In keeping with the conceptualisation of creativity as a boundary phenomenon, collective creativity involves the study of our relational consciousness towards others and with ‘the other’. We need then not to think of creativity as an individual act or that we can reduce what is...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK

...technology company like Amazon or Apple. To whoever The FA sell the commercial rights is a critically important decision for the future of the WSL and probably needs to do the following: Not under-value the commercial potential of the WSL. Preserve free-to-air broadcasting to maximise visibility and audiences. Support the development of the women’s football pyramid to...
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The five billion dollar franchise: How much will Disney make from Star Wars merchandise
Money & Business

The five billion dollar franchise: How much will Disney make from Star Wars merchandise

...technology is sometimes perceived to have created a cultural distance between the generations, events like the release of The Force Awakens are marketed by Disney as something which can draw the family together again. The fact that the marketing around the latest Star Wars instalment has begun some three months before the release of the film itself indicates Disney’s...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...technologies (to sceptics, ‘green cover’ for further climate damage) to preserve their core business model: extracting oil. Adnoc, along with the wider oil and gas industry, has invested in carbon sequestration and making hydrogen fuel from the byproducts of oil extraction. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such measures, even if fully...
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