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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...managed by perhaps ten civil servants in the Treasury, that's all you need. Instead we have a large department of climate change that employs many, many civil servants, all of whom are making up silly rules. And I would simply abolish that whole department and replace them with a working group of ten civil servants or so in the Treasury and that's all we need. RH: OK. So...
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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...Introduction - Perhaps more than any other engagement, the first encounter that a young person has with police can form their perception for years to come. Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children 2013-2014, Baroness Massey of Darwen, is clear that: Children’s first encounter with police officers can have a lasting effect on how they view the police and...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...introduction to microbial ecology came when I spent a year at the University of Aarhus while I was studying for my first degree, in biology, at the University of York. After I graduated, I moved on to a PhD studying carbon cycling in soil environments, specifically studying microbes that consume methanol. The post-PhD move to AstrobiologyOU at the Open University might...
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Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...Introduction - For many calculations you use a calculator. The main aim of this course is to help you to do this in a sensible and fruitful way. Using a calculation to solve a problem involves four main stages: Stage 1: working out what calculation you want to do; Stage 2: working out roughly what size of answer to expect from your calculation; Stage 3: carrying out the...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...managed. The special room set aside for the purpose, sometimes called a ‘lecture room’, had tiered seats rising above a central seat placed at the front of the room for the reader. The prisoners were called by a series of bells, the first to prepare and the second to file in. The prisoner’s voice was deliberately muted: no one was allowed to speak, certainly not...
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Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...Management, vol. 224, pp. 396–405 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.02.055. Wise, F., Moncaster, A., Jones, D. and Dewberry, E. (2019) ‘Considering embodied energy and carbon in heritage buildings – a review’, from Policy to Practice, p. 10. Zhang, X. and Wang, F. (2017) ‘Analysis of embodied carbon in the building life cycle considering the temporal...
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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...managed to examine the effects of aging, using little more than a bed. Transcript More about the science Prof. Ian MacDonald of Nottingham University was the academic consultant on this video, which highlights his group’s research into aging, supported by BBSRC. You can read Andrwe Kuh from the UKSA on what we learn from long-term bed rest. Researchers use bed rest to...
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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...management agreed to negotiate and, hopefully for the workers, reverse their decision. This changed drastically, however, when the company attempted to utilise the legal system to end the dispute. In Scots Law, a company would require an interdict served to every member of an occupation to prevent the continuation of their ‘unlawful’ behaviour. The cumbersome nature...
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