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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...become fractured between these two perspectives of the ville and cité. In the nineteenth century, despite their different origins and motivations, Baron Hausmann’s boulevards, Ildefons Cerdà’s Eixample in Barcelona, with its celebrated chamfered blocks, and the artifice of Frederick Olmsted’s Central Park all shared the aim of refashioning the built environment to...
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On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
Nature & Environment

On the inside of the rebellion against climate change

...becoming ever clearer – humanity and life on earth are in peril from the catastrophic potential of climate change that is caused by human activity on the planet. As David Attenborough highlighted, the biggest risk for humanity and earth are climate tipping points, which are irreversible and will result in massive disruption to ecosystem services that humans currently...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...become exhausting – getting dressed, washing, walking short distances. At this stage, people tend to lose their appetite and so may eat and drink very little. This is a source of worry for them and their loved ones. But it is important to know that at this stage, eating or drinking more is unlikely to help a person live longer, as this is part of the natural dying...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...become further impacted by predicted sea-level rise as climate change continues. [Photo of a flooded alleyway in Looe, Cornwall] Looe, Cornwall, UK Why is the sea level rising? Global sea-level rise is happening because of two reasons: the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and thermal expansion, occurring as seawater density increases due to ocean warming...
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The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...becoming increasingly creepy, like Keats’ deathmask. Sometimes they prove to be comically embarrassing and definitely beside the point, like Agatha Christie’s loo. In fact, all sorts of things that once gave readers an immediate feeling of the author now don’t. This is the celebrated bench on which the Victorians thought Shakespeare courted Anne Hathaway. They...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...becoming a part of how cities demonstrate that they’re contemporary and vibrant and growing. And so in many ways the people who are cycling have tended to live in a variety of different places and, you know, in some ways if academics were unable to meet other people who are studying it in different places, they’d almost miss out on something that their participants...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...become the same. Uniqueness arises from the different way in which these elements combine together and merge. This involves constant construction and re-construction of place, because these processes are occurring in the context of what was already there – the past geography of a place affects the present pattern. At the same time, it must be recognised that the complex...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...becoming common, but there are other known relatively early Egyptian iron artefacts from well dated and documented excavations. They were found within two royal tombs in ancient Thebes (modern Luxor) most, possibly all are nickel rich. Nineteen of these objects were discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen including a set of blades which appear very similar to those used in...
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