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What does it take to mentor young offenders?
Education & Development

What does it take to mentor young offenders?

...become entrepreneurs. Over a period of approximately 18 months, the programme trained and supported a team of 15 volunteer Business Enterprise mentor, linking them to around 50 young people during this period. 10 of the mentors are male and five female. They ranged in age from 22 to 60 years. Nine define themselves as white British, two as other British, one as black...
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Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...become a basic human right?...Food is a fundamental human right, as set down by international human rights treaties and, often, national constitutions. But the right to food cannot be ensured without a corresponding right to phosphorus, as some scientists pointed out at the Sustainable Phosphorus Summit 2014 in Montpellier, France. [Trains loaded with phosphate rock, Al...
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Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...becoming hubs of economic activity, large-scale changes are expected. However, the authors say this is the first study to quantify the effect of urbanisation on crop lands at global, continental, and country levels. The study was carried out by researchers from Austria, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand, and United States. The croplands that are going to disappear by 2030 have...
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‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring
Society, Politics & Law

‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring

...become involved in issues that concern them. Citizen science is often a reaction to what is seen as insufficient monitoring by governments, and there are several examples of how it can give a voice to marginalised communities, who tend to suffer most from environmental neglect. A lot of contemporary citizen science revolves around the use of sensors that gather data...
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Metal Spinning / Flow Turning
Science, Maths & Technology

Metal Spinning / Flow Turning

...becomes. Thicknesses between 0.25 and 9 mm can be spun, depending on the material. Blank diameters are usually in the range 1.2–1.5 m; blanks up to 2.5 m can be spun if necessary. Tolerances can be controlled down to ±0.125 mm. Metal spinning is a versatile process able to provide a wide range of component shapes, e.g. bottle-shaped containers, a sphere from two...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...becoming stronger and often recognise those benefits. [A close up shot of a woman.] Conducting interviews with members of the Silent Generation shows they are anything but silent. They are actively engaged politically either within their own communities or more widely in society. The referendum outcome in 2016 led some of them to go on their first protest marches against...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...becoming in our responses to the ‘refugee crisis’? Through playful co-creations and artful interventions how can we co-create new understandings of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ – including a better understanding of the meanings and limits of hospitality and solidarity? What does it mean politically to bring playful co-creations and artworks into a context that...
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Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...become quite the household name. My theory took route on my voyage on the HMS Beagle. As a naturalist on a Royal Navy exploring ship I was responsible for collating data on the flora and fauna as well as geology of the destinations we visited. Fossils of extinct creatures and shipments of insects and birds were shipped back to Cambridge for identification. My exploration...
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