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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...change. It could be anything from women’s rights to the environment, racial equity to language, public transport to housing. Some campaign groups operate in specific locations and concentrate on specific local issues, while others work right across the country (and beyond) on broader societal issues. Often, one of the best ways of finding campaign groups is through...
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom. The programmes are broadcast live from locations with many of the cameras hidden and operated remotely to record natural behaviour. Learning locally Many local and national museums/nature organisations run various programmes. So, you may need to follow up your local connections. Meanwhile here at the home of The Open...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of the stories in the series is about tropical fig trees, the birds and...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...changes to the way that teaching, research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures, learning analytics, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...change for future generations of women workers. Inspired by Union Activists At Bridgeton I worked alongside many wonderful characters and the stories they could tell were often humorous, even in dire circumstances, very much a trait of Glaswegian humour. It kept my young impressionable mind ablaze! I was inspired by two of my colleagues in particular – John Bond, an...
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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...change over time and providing information and advice that is relevant to their needs at the time. Using every opportunity to identify carers. If you don’t know who is a carer to start with, you can’t make sure that they get the information and support to which they are entitled. Many of the services that might be expected to identify who is in this position are...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...change...[Emergency defibrillator in a phone booth] Heart attacks claim the lives of 3.3 million women every year, and many women die from other heart-related conditions. In the United States, nearly 290,000 women died from heart disease in 2013 – that’s about one in every four female deaths. In Australia, a recent report found over 31,000 women died from heart...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...changing the face of sport. One of the biggest influences on sporting experiences for both participants and spectators has been the evolution of the Single-Chip Microprocessor. In 1969 the Intel 4004 was invented and was as powerful as any complete computer available at that time. Fast forward 4 years and the first call on a mobile phone was made. As we know, this has...
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