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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...Working with procurement, IT managers can significantly cut the embodied carbon cost of their assets through a circular IT approach to extending technology lifetimes, considered equipment repurposing and verified recycling. Remanufactured and refurbished technology options are rapidly becoming more accessible, and more viable. However, what can be done to reduce the...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...working. Carnival has this fire, and you can’t take that away from us. Bringing Butetown together We keep feeding into this image of poverty and hardship. Art and literature love dystopia, so whenever Butetown is revisited in these forms, it’s always about the community that died. However, we, the local people, have started buying into those stories ourselves. We need...
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...work of Thomas Leland, Elizabeth Griffiths and Regina Maria Roche are often considered some of the earliest examples from this tradition A. M. Shine’s The Watchers (2022) and Jan Carson’s haunted whodunnit The Raptures (2022) are evidence that the tradition is still very much alive and well in Ireland. Many of Ireland’s most famous Gothic writers over the past 250...
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What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?

...Social media was abuzz with allegations of election fraud, as angry Turks documented their claims with photographs and videos. A delegation from Greece that was watching the elections was detained in Istanbul on the day of the vote, heightening the general atmosphere of tension. And people who live in Kurdish majority areas had to vote amid a heavy police presence....
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Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...social skills. For example, his decision making, concentration and attitude have all developed. Similarly, his confidence, and general maturity when talking to coaches and referees have carried forward into every aspect of his life. Despite this at the back of my mind is the knowledge that as he gets older and tackling becomes part of the game (from U9 onwards) perhaps...
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Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
History & The Arts

Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...socialism and tourism. The news of his death at the age of 90 brings many of these thorny questions to mind. And there are many anecdotes to illustrate them. I would like to draw on one in particular – the case of Jean-Paul Sartre and his observations of the Cuban leader as they toured Cuba in the back of Castro’s car in the spring of 1960. Sartre and Simone de...
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Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...social needs. The new bill, which had its first reading in the House of Commons on February 23, acknowledges that prisons are a revolving door where prisoners repeatedly return to prison, but doesn’t mention that many violent offenders are first incarcerated for non-violent property or drugs offences. Nearly half of all adult prisoners are reconvicted within one year of...
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Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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