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Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...think it's time that we went out and find a few. Wendy So you're telling me that I've got to look at the creepy crawlies then? Steve Yes, the creepy crawlies. Wendy Ok, let's go then. Fortunately, we only needed to find one very particular species to give us clues about the age of everything around us. Wendy Steve, over here a minute, what's that? Steve Excellent, well I...
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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...system of analysis...Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground: 1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas - Mozart wrote nineteen compositions with the title ‘Sonata’ for the fortepiano, works spanning from his teenage years (the Sonata in C, K279, was written at the age of fifteen) to two years before his death (the Sonata in D, K576, dates from 1789). Although they...
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...systems. The emergence of anthropogenic global warming as a major threat steered her research to focus on biological impacts of climate change in natural systems. Her research spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She works actively with governmental agencies and...
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...systems, but just at an incredible scale. This scale multiplies the cloud’s impact, both good and bad. Our job at an organisational IT level is to know how to recognise and minimise the negative, while promoting and accelerating the good. This article looks at just some of the ways cloud contributes to our digital carbon footprints from processing workloads to the...
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...thinking (e.g. ‘technology/science will save us’), we can detach ourselves from the problem (e.g. ‘there’s nothing I can do about it’), we can blame others (e.g. ‘others that produce more pollution than me are the problem’) or we can immerse ourselves in the busyness of our everyday lives and not think about it. [Newspaper headlines about climate change]...
Coronavirus: The Lowdown
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: The Lowdown

...think you have coronavirus? You may need to isolate yourself if you think you have coronavirus or have been in close contact with an infected person. Spending 15 minutes within 2m (6ft) of someone with the virus, or having face-to-face contact, increases your risk of contracting the disease. Please check the NHS website for more advice on what to do. How can you stop...
What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...think that people in the medical profession have a duty to preserve life – even though someone might be near the end of life. It may also be argued that that placing people who are working to save life in the role of helping to take life has the potential to destroy trust. This is also what is known as the ‘thin end of the wedge’ argument, that there might be...
Schizophrenia: Beyond science
Health, Sports & Psychology

Schizophrenia: Beyond science

...thinking was fragmented. When used in psychiatry, ‘schizophrenia’ refers to a collection of unusual experiences or symptoms such as: hearing voices, having hallucinations, having strange beliefs or delusions, feeling paranoid or being out of touch with reality. Schizophrenia is classed as a ‘psychotic disorder’ along with bipolar disorder and a few other...