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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...project. His basic interpretation was that the penetrometer, after at first producing a brief high force signature had pushed into a soft surface. From his work in the laboratory, it seemed that the material on Titan was probably granular or grainy. Could it be Titan's version of sand or gravel, produced by the continued action of flowing liquid over the underlying...
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Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women
Society, Politics & Law

Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women

...project, Gendering Constitutional Conversations. Northern Ireland conversations were funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and conversations in the Republic were funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Funding has been crucial. It has enabled women from different parts of the island to have their say and listen to each other. Dr. Joanna McMinn, well-known...
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...project, it may be possible to explore this further. The preliminary findings of this survey highlight that parents value choice and personalisation of learning more highly than replicating their own educational experiences. Yet the ways in which parents/guardians’ own educational journeys impact how home education is ‘done’ within their family is a relatively...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...project explores the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of creative asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in the UK and around the world. [Refugee cartoon, society matters] While the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean seems calmer than this time last year, the policy and political crisis it’s created in Europe remains largely unresolved – and...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...projects in the pipeline will see output rise from 23 gigawatts (GW) today to 50GW by 2031. The Barakah nuclear power plant (the Arab world’s first) started generating electricity in 2020. While only meeting 1% of the country’s electricity demand, when fully operational in 2030, this may rise to 25%. The oil sector is inherently capital-intensive, not
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...project to collect so-called “untranslatable” words that pertain to well-being, a work-in-progress which currently features nearly 1,000 words. Such words can reveal phenomena which have been overlooked or under-appreciated in one’s own culture, as I explore in two forthcoming books (a general interest exploration of key words, and an academic analysis of the...
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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...project – particularly those which propose the demolition of an existing building - should be required to calculate embodied as well as operational carbon and should be approved only if newbuild is really found to be the lowest carbon solution. Finally, where a new building is essential, design and materials should be selected from the start to have the lowest...
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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...project, it is in fact possible, just about, to trace the development of this gesture all the way back to hieroglyphics themselves. Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original TV series, writes in his autobiography about how he modelled the Vulcan salute on a blessing used by Jewish priests. This consists of using the hands to imitate the Hebrew letter Shin ש –...
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