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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...system to pay for the creation of it. And the problem, of course, in the digital field is that if you say, ‘Hey, it’s all free, everybody can use everything’ then they go, ‘Well why should we ever pay somebody to make it?’ And you go, ‘No, no, no, that’s not the deal! You’ve still got to pay for the creation of it, but then you can use it afterwards.’...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...system to pay for the creation of it. And the problem, of course, in the digital field is that if you say, ‘Hey, it’s all free, everybody can use everything’ then they go, ‘Well why should we ever pay somebody to make it?’ And you go, ‘No, no, no, that’s not the deal! You’ve still got to pay for the creation of it, but then you can use it afterwards.’...
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...systems go and the reasons seem to be that it was the answer to climate change. You know you’ve got a low carbon technology here. It would give – it was part of the necessary mix because you needed base load power. We've got to keep the lights on. We’ve got to save the planet. All those sorts of buzzwords were going around. And there was deeply embedded a nuclear...
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...system was fully saturated, Davy stepped out of the box and proceeded to inhale a further twenty quarts of the gas from a series of oiled green silk bags. While seated in the box breathing deeply, Davy had felt the effects that had become familiar from his many previous experiments since he had first inhaled the gas earlier that year. The first signature was its curiously...
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...system to their advantage, especially in Irish dominated cities such as Boston, New York, and Chicago. Tammany Hall in New York, the headquarters of the Democratic Party, became synonymous with Irish political power in the city. Such political advantages ultimately allowed the Catholic Irish to move up the social ladder. By the 1920s and 1930s they already slightly...
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...system is so complex with social and political levers and pulleys' (Woods, 2020) that have been around for a long time and act, either covertly or overtly, in the favour of white people. The privilege and opportunities for a white person in the UK do not always exist for a black person and therein lies the problem. For example, there are exclusionary processes that act...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...Systems, 46(3), p. 17. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10916-022-01803-5 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (2022) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, 2022-2027. Available at: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/who-we-are/research-inclusion/strategy-2022-27 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Ní, S.É.,...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...system (Carlile et al., 2021). Many GPs refuse to refer children for specialist treatment, or to administer prescribed medication. Referral letters go awry. Even after a first appointment, children can wait months to be assessed and start receiving any medical treatment. Professionals often have rigid, binary notions of gender that mean young people need to perform a...