Nature & Environment
Recycling and Waste
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Society, Politics & Law
What does Marine LePen plan for France?
...free, safe, prosperous, fair, proud, powerful, and sustainable”. Not many people will have the inclination to read the lot, but I did. And what I discovered was a candidate who plans not so much to take France out of Europe as cut it free of the whole continent. The key themes of the weighty manifesto are for France to leave both the eurozone and the EU and to...
Nature & Environment
What is a digital carbon footprint?
...courses Carbon footprint According to the World Meteorology Organisations, the occurrence of extreme climate events has increased by more than a factor of five in the last 50 years. In their 2021 report, they state that the number of reported climate disasters rose from 711 in the 1970s to 3,165 in the decade between 2010 and 2019. It is therefore perhaps not surprising...
Science, Maths & Technology
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
...free molecular oxygen that makes up 20% of our atmosphere for granted with every breath. So why is finding oxygen in a comet such a big deal? Oxygen readily binds with other abundant elements such as hydrogen (H) or carbon ( C ) to form water (H2O) or carbon dioxide (CO2). It takes some energy to split these molecules into their components again to produce free oxygen....
OpenLearn Ireland
Change in the West of Ireland
...language - have however often co-existed with and been counterbalanced by a history of rural poverty and social decline. So, while travellers from all over the world enjoy coming to this ‘remote’ location, that same ‘remoteness’ has also resulted in another type of connection to the wider world as many locals have emigrated in search of employment opportunities....
Science, Maths & Technology
The Naming of Asteroids
...language). The prize for the most imaginative name goes to (2037) Tripaxeptalis. The name is pure invention but sounds like “triPax-septAlice”, which reflects the fact that its permanent designation is three times that of (679) Pax and seven times that of (291) Alice. Until its orbit has been sufficiently well-documented, each new discovery is known only by a...
Society, Politics & Law
What does the Queen's Speech tell us about the next two years?
...free infant school meals. This was a policy established during the 2010-15 coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The plan to scrap it was said to have been a vote loser on the doorstep in 2017. The prime minister’s ill-advised manifesto pledge for a free vote on foxhunting has also vanished. This was another issue which seemed to turn off a significant number of voters...
Society, Politics & Law
Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
...Language illustrates how India has built on its colonial inheritance. There are more English speakers in India today than there are in the UK. After the US, India has the most English speakers in the world, about 125m. The number is larger when you include people with some conversational ability in English, amounting to more than a third of Indians. This is the largest...