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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...researched and written about embodied carbon of buildings - only one part of what we need to think about for our built environment, as we face a future increasingly affected by climate change. [Construction site, sky full of cranes] What is the built environment? Our built environment includes physical objects such as buildings, roads and pavements, sewerage treatment...
What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?
Science, Maths & Technology

What part did citizen science play in hurricane disaster relief?

...Research Group at Oxford runs the results through machine learning algorithms. These algorithms can quickly resolve inconsistent responses, bring all the data together and integrate information derived from other crowdsourced mapping sources, such as the Humanitarian Open Street Map and Tomnod. This approach increases the reliability of the information gathered and...
How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...research as possible to determine if they are trustworthy and that they can process your payments. Currently, Bitcoin exchanges are not regulated in the same manner as banks and foreign currency exchanges so you have very little protection if anything were to go wrong. Exchange rates It’s probably too early to tell if Bitcoin is around for the long term. As far as we...
Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...Research Press. Harris, D. L. (ed.) (2000) Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications, Routledge. Harris, D. L. (2022) ‘Political Grief’, Illness, Crisis & Loss, 30(3), pp. 572-89. Kumar, R. (2021) ‘The Many Faces of Grief: A Systematic Literature Review of Grief During the Covid-19 Pandemic’, Illness, Crisis & Loss, 31(1), pp. 100-119. Thompson,...
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African traditional religions, and consequently...
How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...research fellow at SOAS, pointed out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what one yoga teacher described in 1976 as “housewife syndrome” which included “monotony and lack of...
Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...research and understanding. You may like to take a look at the Timeline, to put some of the narratives in the context of other historical events of the period. Interpreting the oracle's utterances Herodotus suggests one of the main differences between Greeks and barbarians is the ability of clever Greeks to interpret oracles correctly. In the ‘Lydios logos’, Herodotus...