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Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...think to be quite honest the management started to want rid of me. Even my daughter said you can’t be an unofficial union rep mum because you’re not protected.” Jacky also spoke about the conditions in the care home and the impact COVID-19 had in increasing isolation and in their treatment of residents: “I did feel awfully sorry for the residents because what was...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...thinking, passionate conversations, and shared struggles amongst different people, emphasising the importance of the social dimension of creativity. Collective creativity calls us to rethink the relationship between creativity and the economy through refocusing attention on the collective and relational nature of creative practice, where divergent thinking,...
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...think this has been particularly problematic in terms of scientific integrity or research quality? Elisabeth: Yes, I do. In light of the pandemic, many scientific journals have shortened the peer-review process, to make new studies more rapidly available. Normally, it might take weeks or months before a paper passes peer-review, but many recently published papers on...
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What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...systems, that not only compare to, but exceed proprietary options, must feel like pinching themselves. [Door outside in the woods] You can open some things, but it doesn't always mean there's any value to it Long gone are the arguments around viability (is the open source option “enterprise ready?”) and feasibility (does the community have the expertise and resources...
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What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...system. Did tar particles from Pluto’s atmosphere somehow make it across to Charon? Elsewhere there are plenty of impact craters, though probably fewer than on Pluto’s water-ice terrains, which poses a problem of why and how Charon has been resurfaced more recently than much of Pluto. Maybe there is some twist to the tidal-heating interaction between Pluto and Charon...
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Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection
Society, Politics & Law

Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection

...system of regulation – a system of social protection – which has existed since the 1830s. And, despite its political framing, this is not a story about rules, regulations, nor red tape, nor about the demands of austerity. It is a story about social inequality and avoidable business-generated, state facilitated violence: that is, social murder. Steve Tombs has written...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...system (RGS, Twentieth Century Challenges, 2020). [Photos of London's River Thames] The Thames Barrier To watch a video of how the Thames Barrier works from the Environment Agency, click here. London's economic value to the UK London is central to the UK economy and as such is seen as a valuable asset. A major flood in 1953 with estimated costs of 1.2 billion at 2014...
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...systems. However, they also cite that the effects of ageing can be delayed/offset with physical activity. Just because we reach a certain number/milestone birthday, or enter into retirement does not mean we have to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, and reflect on what we once could do. On the contrary the physiologic and complete benefits to health by being physically active...
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