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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...works as a poet and lawmaker are based on tiny fragments of evidence, but he is considered by some to have laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. Certainly later Athenians (of the time of Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’) looked back to Solon as the founding figure of their radical experiment with people power. Herodotus records that Solon made a ten-year journey,...
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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...work out whether they can best trust H&M ‘Conscious’ clothing made from organic cotton and signposted in-store by their Conscious green hang tag, as much as they can trust the Soil Association organic clothing label attached to their ASOS T-shirt. They might also find the Soil Association label lined up alongside the ‘Cottoned On’ label, and even the GOTS label,...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...workings. Because similar designs are used by all the major chip makers, almost every computer in the world could be affected, from Apple iPhones and Android devices, to MacBooks, large desktop PCs and internet servers. The process is also so fundamental that it doesn’t create any log of its operations, meaning there is no record of whether a particular chip has been...
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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...works, and the ingenuity that it represents?...It’s likely that, in such a situation, your thoughts are drawn to the detail apparent in the external form, perhaps to the interlocking cleverness of stacking chairs, or the flowing curves of a car panel, or maybe to the functional elegance of a kitchen utensil. If your thoughts lead you deeper into the nature of the object...
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How can you exercise safely in the heat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you exercise safely in the heat?

...works best when the core temperature is maintained at 37℃, so to help keep the body cool, the body starts to sweat, allowing the heat to evaporate. This sweating causes water loss from the blood and can lead to dehydration. To help with the sweating, blood vessels dilate to allow more blood to be diverted to the surface of the skin by enabling more heat loss as a way to...
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The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...working? Alarmingly, this is starting to happen. Many bacteria are becoming resistant to some antibiotics, and a few seem to be resistant to virtually all antibiotics. Although very small and apparently simple, bacteria have some powerful tools at their disposal and one is the ability to transfer genes for antibiotic resistance to other bacteria. So if one strain becomes...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...work and care continues to change as families, communities and society transform over time. Here the concept of home may take on new meanings in trying to maintain a sense of attachment, stability and refuge. Home has also embraced the technological and digital. For people in the UK, being able to stay in their own home in old age may involve the use of assistive...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...work in primary schools, in particular the Music curriculum, and James Mansell to his work in secondary school Physical Education (PE). They too realised the necessity of placing EfS at the core of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment - not only to benefit the lives of the students they teach, but also the communities in which those children and young people reside. Not...
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