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Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion
Nature & Environment

Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion

...educating the public about the nature in their surroundings. Increasingly volunteers are now helping in supporting wellbeing initiatives outdoors...Green social prescribing is defined as the practice of supporting people to engage in nature-based interventions and activities to improve their mental and physical health. Some examples of this include local walking schemes,...
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The Z Files: Jon Chase
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Jon Chase

...educational path to learn about science even if I’ve messed up a little bit? Jon Chase Yeah of course, everyone can. You know, it’s just feeling what you feel comfortable doing and what you enjoy too. Benjamin Zephaniah And where do I start? Jon Chase Well you start with your interests, you start with what you’re into, because no matter what, I realise people will...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...educational level or ethnic background and so on, but also things like disenchantment with political authority, sense of powerlessness, political cynicism, authoritarianism or alienation from society. They have also looked at personality factors and aspects of cognitive functioning (resistance to disconfirming evidence, tendency to circular thinking, attributional styles,...
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John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...technology could also be used for harm but was always optimistic that the benefits of universal, free access to the would far outweigh its harmful aspects; "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

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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