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Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...centre of gravity - CG - in the right place for safety and control. They need to calculate how much fuel will be needed, where to store it in the boat and what size pipes it should flow through. The next video features Andrew Bradley, the chief engineer for the project, and James Morton, a project engineer, as they talk about some of the mathematics they use to solve...
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Darwin in the land of pumas
History & The Arts

Darwin in the land of pumas

...children sucking it like sugar. This habit is very different from that of the Spanish Gauchos, who, leading the same kind of life, eat scarcely any; according to Mungo Park, it is people who live on vegetable food who have an unconquerable desire for salt. The Indians gave us good-humoured nods as they passed at full gallop, driving before them a troop of horses, and...
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Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...children and produced a document with a list of necessary behaviours to be adhered to on her part. This list outlined that she should fulfil household duties such as the laundry, cooking my meals and tidying my study as required. She should also understand that, due to my busy academic schedule, she would not receive my company in public, she would not expect intimacy and...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...children and elderly people benefits all generations”. Finally, there are emerging concerns over who will care for caregivers. It is not just older populations who are too often forgotten and uncared for. It is also those who are responsible for them. Balancing work, life and caring can be a nearly impossible task. There are also emotional burdens that require support...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...centre, straddling one of the main highways to Pakistan’s north. Crowds throng the hundreds of roadside shops. Balakot is back in business – but its people still have much to tell about the experience of picking up their lives again. Not all of this is the work of the aid effort. Some of the grandest assistance schemes produced the most meagre results. Everywhere you...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...centred on tobacco and later cotton which proved unsuccessful. In need of an alternative crop, and with the assistance of the Dutch, Barbados began harvesting and cultivating sugar cane. And this was the game changer. The exponential growth in demand for sugar coupled with the autonomous, finance-driven economy that had been created worked together to ensure vast...
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...Centre Charlotte has an impressive background in leadership, music programming, event management, working with not-for-profit organisations, fund raising and music media. Since 2008, she has worked at Oh Yeah, rising to the position of Creative Development Director. Aside from her many accomplishments in this role, she was the co-founder of Love Music Hate Racism Northern...
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...centre by a brooch detail. She is sat on the left holding a book in one hand and he is sat on the right holding up a medallion.] Eadgyth and her husband Otto I, Magdeburg Cathedral. Chris 73/Wikimedia, CC BY In 2008 her tomb in Magdeburg in Germany was opened and, although carbon dating failed, isotopic tests confirmed that the remains were indeed Eadgyth’s. But...
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