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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...community, and I think those sorts of films, beyond traditional broadcast, are just as important in the environmental … let’s call it, television bit. Environmental programmes: Getting commissioned? No, I think the real challenge was that in television programming, so above the level of commissioning, for many, many, many years the E word, the environment word, was...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...community, and I think those sorts of films, beyond traditional broadcast, are just as important in the environmental … let’s call it, television bit. Environmental programmes: Getting commissioned No, I think the real challenge was that in television programming, so above the level of commissioning, for many, many, many years the ‘E word’, the environment word,...
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Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...communicate with your brain. Why not have a go?...The Pulfrich pendulum: an experimental investigation Introduction In this experiment you will be investigating a phenomenon known as the Pulfrich pendulum effect. As you might guess, it involves a swinging pendulum, and was first described in 1922 by a German physicist called Carl Pulfrich. This is a very simple effect to...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Communities Secretary John Denham, had no contingency plans in place should firefighters go out on strike. Caroline Spelman, his shadow on the Conservative benches, sounded a warning as clear as any fire alarm: Britain faces a "winter of discontent". 2010 Writing in City AM, DLA Piper LLA's David Bradley was wise enough to know that winters of discontent are often upon...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...communities. Yet, there is another geography, that geography of external relations on which identities, including the identities of places, depend. How do we bring that into our attitude to, and our politics of, place? This tendency to inward-lookingness becomes even clearer when we turn to the second reservation about the characterisation of London as multicultural...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...community, 52.5 per cent of Welsh voters chose the former. One factor of many certainly, but a factor nonetheless. A better understanding of Brexit ‘The Weakness of European Wales’ was first published in the magazine PLANET: The Welsh Internationalist, volume 225. Planet can be contacted on Twitter as @Planet_TWI , or on Facebook at Planetmagazine.CylchgrawnPlanet A...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...community in the United States. Both the Union and Confederate armies, anxious to attract recruits, formed all-Irish units. Most Irish recruits, an estimated 150,000 men, served with Union forces while about 20,000, generally those who lived in the southern cities such as New Orleans, served with the Confederates. New York’s famous 69th Infantry Regiment was a...
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Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...communication is reduced, short-term memory can be impaired and falling asleep - either a short "micro-sleep" or for a longer period - can result in poor decision making (Staff Reporter, 2018; Eurocontrol, 2018). Sleep Research demonstrates that the accumulation of "sleep debt", e.g., having an hour less of sleep for several consecutive days, needs a series of days with...
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