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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...work, named ‘voices of our generation’ to help students to convey and justify their own opinions, and question the opinions of others, on topics such as ‘social media’ and ‘education’. Talk Factory was also used on the interactive whiteboard to support whole class discussions, and the app was used on iPads, by students, during group discussions and during an...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...work commenced on the Silver Bridge another bridge, almost identical in design, was constructed at St Marys, about 70 miles upstream from Point Pleasant. The bridge was formally named the ‘Hi Carpenter’ bridge. Walter Carpenter It was really ready for a big thing to happen at St Mary’s, and people were just rousing to welcome this new thing called a bridge crossing...
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Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...working in every locality to improve rivers and their catchments. These new initiatives recognise that water is essential to all life on Earth, not just for human use. A changing climate means we need to be collaborative, creative, adaptive and caring in how we manage the 1% for humans and biodiversity to thrive. References Dwyer, C. (2017) A New Zealand river now has the...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...work which respect the fragility and power of nature can create better-paid green jobs for all. If we want a fairer and greener society, then we must set specific objectives to achieve this. It means jettisoning fairytale ideas of endless economic growth, and considering the data which tells us both our society and the natural world which underpins life on earth are...
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Seismograph
Society, Politics & Law

Seismograph

...work? To make a seismograph, you need to get one thing to move with the earth as it shakes, and something else to stay as still as possible relative to the earth. Not easy when the whole earth is moving! Ideally, you’d have a pen, suspended in space, not influenced by the earth at all, marking onto paper that is fixed to the earth. But that’s impossible. The fixing of...
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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...worked on more than one level. Their affinity with the world around them was often evoked in their paintings, for example in the works of Constable. There are strong echoes of Romanticism in contemporary concerns about the environment and the need to appreciate and preserve it. Romantics also embraced the foreign and the exotic, especially eliciting an interest in...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover during the environmental testing phase at Airbus Toulouse.] The ExoMars - Rosalind...
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From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...work due to long-term sickness (Powell, 2024). The UK, therefore, is increasingly sick, and demand for health care and treatment far outstrips the availability of services. But we cannot rely on the NHS to solve this. Important as the NHS is in treating and curing disease when it arises, it is not built to address the underlying factors contributing to the UK’s...
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