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Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Society, Politics & Law

Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?

...centre of travel. Secondly, physically, airports have huge effects on the areas around them, but are actually quite small. Unlike most airports, Heathrow is inside London's western suburbs, rather than in the nearby countryside. On the global scale, another runway will allow Heathrow to offer more flights. However, if you’re only focusing on the total number of flights...
Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...centred around oxygen: we breathe in this molecule and use it to oxidise molecules such as glucose (a type of reduction-oxidation reaction, or ‘redox’ for short). Plants are capable of photosynthesis, which means using light as a source of energy. Even though you may be familiar with these types of metabolisms, the microbial world offers an enormous diversity of...
Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...centre of the location, culture, climate triangle, connecting and influencing each factor. [Aerial top view of a houses in a neighbourhood during the day] Developers and the Fossil Fuel City Understanding the rise of fossil fuel cities needs to include social histories of architecture, asking questions about who historically has been in control of the processes of...
What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...Centre in Milton Keynes. Cities have been subject to successive waves of socio-technical innovation. These AI-enabled automated technologies are only the latest in a long line of urban technologies. For example, during the last decade sensor networks and big data hubs have been installed in many cities under the auspices of ‘smart city’ developments. However, while it...
Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...of Evil. Publication of On Revolution. 1967 professor at New School for Social Research, New York 1975 8 December - dies of a heart attack in New York 1978 publication of two volumes of The Life of the Mind Reading Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil, Penguin paperback Peter Baehr, editor, The Portable Hannah Arendt, Penguin paperback...
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Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...Research and lecturing at Addis Ababa University for many years. Alongside this she worked extensively in a number of grassroot development projects, which in her later career were based at the Institute for Sustainable Development, where she was a director. In her 50 years of dedicated service to Ethiopia and Eritrea, she had made massive contribution to botany, from...
The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...Research and theoretical work that appears to discredit a disability identity can be easily misinterpreted as denying the inequality facing this group and therefore presents difficulties for the development of a disability movement. Although it is helpful to critique knowledge that legitimates the able body, this type of critique also risks the implication that disability...
Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...research will appear in a two-volume publication by Cambridge University Press: Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean (general editor: Angeliki Lymberopoulou, expected date of publication 2020). This volume will be accompanied by a password protected, open access (i.e. free of charge) database. Watch...