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What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...world’s worst mercury poisoning incident, which affected thousands of people who ate contaminated fish in Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1956. Its provisions include banning new mercury mines, phasing out existing ones, and regulating the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Some15 million miners in 70 countries risk mercury poisoning. Countries with major...
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Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...worlds of academia, business and the civil service at the very highest levels. I have also had profound spiritual experiences that made me into a spiritual teacher for a period. I have worked on myself non-stop for the last 40 years and have understood most of what my unconscious is up to most of the time. Now I am a small-holder, which includes being a repair mechanic...
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Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
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Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix

...world to show how a negative schooling experience still dominates the lives of many. "Education as we know it, is about dividing us up; the subjects we study, the classes we study with, the practices that teach us" Jonathan Rix, Professor of Participation and Learning Support Following his lecture, he will be joined by a panel of experts in education: Teresa Cremin, OU...
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
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The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...world, and in many parts of Europe and Britain as well as all over Ireland. In that sense, what we see in the West of Ireland is part of a widespread distribution of this system of agriculture. It is the process of their establishment in the West of Ireland that is distinctive, representing a clash between the remnants of a particular small-scale peasant society and a...
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The Dog of Alcibiades
History & The Arts

The Dog of Alcibiades

...world; dogs used for hunting would often be raised by their owner from puppyhood, although they could be given as valuable gifts in later life. In the third century CE a Roman writer, Nemesianus, tells us how to pick the best puppy in the litter. You separate the puppies from their mother, surround them with a ring of fire, and see which puppy the mother saves first; this...
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What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...world. Finding out what other children in your school think about maths lessons, or what other young people understand about money, for example, can be fascinating. You can see a wide variety of research done by children and young people here. Wanting to change something: Research led by children and young people can be important because it can help them to make their...
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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...world but more as an artefact of interaction. In this way, the disabled body and mind is not a permanent state but rather a fluid representation produced through a multiplicity of histories, structures, and discourses. Disability knowledge and meaning are not then to be taken as an all-encompassing and accurate reflection of the experience of it. Rather, disability should...
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Big moon rising
Science, Maths & Technology

Big moon rising

...world happens on average only every 50,000 years or so, produces at least ten times more ash than any volcano in the past millennium, and could blot out so much sunlight that plants would cease to grow for months on end. A supermoon is defined as a full moon occurring during the tenth of its orbit that is closest to the Earth. On average this happens at least once a year...
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