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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...year running. [Northern Ireland Science Festival Logo][Copyrighted image Icon][space science masters image]Study space science at postgraduate level to prepare for managing major missions like those to Mars: MSc in Space Science and Technology Study space science at undergraduate level: Questions in science - introductory level Planetary science and the search for life...
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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and German. Later on, I learnt some English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border,...
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Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical
History & The Arts

Introducing the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematical

...introduction to the work...[Sir Isaac Newton after John Thornhill] Sir Isaac Newton Since the ancients (as we are told by Pappus) made great account of the science of mechanics in the investigation of natural things; and the moderns, laying aside substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavored to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have...
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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...introduction of robots) in the mid-1980s, in Britain and Brazil, there was a clear desire to connect with my father’s mechanical knowledge and attraction to motor vehicles. My switch to studying household technologies coincided with becoming a mother; I also wrote about mothering, lone mothering, ‘new’ families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain,...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...Introduction to Gender Identity” workshops. In general they offer a broad overview of gender identity and expression and offer resources for those who may need them. While we know that these kinds of trainings have been going on for decades across the world, to date we are unaware of any formal evaluations of such interventions in secondary schools. We have recently...
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Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...introduction of a fees regime for employment tribunals has effectively weakened enforcement in the UK. If the UK leaves the EU, it not clear that there will be a bonfire of employment legislation. Much would depend on the UK’s subsequent relationship with the EU, which would need to be negotiated. If the UK became part of the European Economic Area, it might continue to...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...introduction to the novel, Blake Morrison suggests that writing this was a form of catharsis for Burgess – although later in his life Burgess spoke of the dejection he felt at the accusations that his artwork was some sort of promo glamorising violence. Following a failed attempt by the Rolling Stones to film the novel and Andy Warhol’s highly experimental take on it,...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...introduction of the snoopers charter and railroading through the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill which could result in the jailing of university staff refusing to report students suspected of undefined extremism. For his part, French prime minister, Manuel Valls, in an unwelcome echo of the appalling failures of the Blair–Bush era, has called for a war on terrorism....
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