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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...project to understand the entire remote carbon footprint of employees. Beyond the obvious carbon-accountability reasons for this, employers have an opportunity to better support their staff’s remote-working costs during the ongoing energy crisis while also helping proactively address a nascent mental health topic – eco-anxiety. Remote workers and eco-anxiety...
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A brief history of advertising
Money & Business

A brief history of advertising

...Management courses In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury. But advertising goes back much earlier than Caxton’s days; almost certainly it emerged alongside trading. From simply displaying ones wares outside, to painting murals to entice customers, the roots of advertising run deep....
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Moons of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of the Solar System

...managed to visit over the last fifty years, including The Moon, Europa, Phobos, Deimos and Titan. From the first human footsteps on another world to the most distant spacecraft landing in history, our neighbourhood of moons has always played a central role in our exploration of the planets. For an introductory astronomy course, try The Open University course S194...
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Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...associated with buying fewer garments whilst being equally, if not more satisfied with the contents of our wardrobes. My study aims to explore the feasibility of this ‘win win’ situation by investigating what happens when existing clothes shopping patterns are challenged. To find out more about the project and the author, visit the Coventry university website....
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Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?

...projects. Alain Labrique, founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, Baltimore, US, says, “There is a lot of data — including our own — showing rapidly decreasing 'digital divides'. Not having a phone is not, in my understanding of these observations, expressly causal of health disparities, and rather, more likely a proxy of poor...
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Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question

...projects which suggest a link between drinking cow’s milk and autism. It was originally released a few years ago, but has recently been relaunched on social media causing much discussion. The research that underpins PETA’s claim is based on two small-scale studies. One was a “blind” study of 20 children, half of whom were given a diet free from gluten and casein...
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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...introduction of additive manufacturing (a.k.a. 3D printing) has made it possible to fabricate an unimaginable range of shapes and structures and has consequently resulted in renewed interest in cellular structures and their application. It is now possible to put material only where it is needed, and so the internal structures of objects can be designed and manufactured so...
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Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair
Society, Politics & Law

Siblings in the scrum: long history of brothers makes rugby a family affair

...introduction and experience of the sport in a variety of ways – from taking up the game to sibling rivalry driving performance. Being an England fan I was already aware of the two sets of brothers in the England squad – Billy and Mako Vunipola and the brothers Ben and Tom Youngs (whose father Nick was a former England scrum-half). Then there is Scotland and the Gray...
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