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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...research about the potential of Indigenous ceremonies and festivals to making a better world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...research, Dawson might have traced briefly the early nineteenth-century roots of paleontology from the pioneering work of either Mary Anning or Gideon Mantell to Owen. In so doing, he would have provided readers with a parallel commentary on the historical and cultural influences that shaped the lives and careers of both Dickens and Owen. Though serial publication of...
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Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...researchers working for the networking company Cisco, warned that more than half a million routers in 54 countries had been infected by malware known as VPNFilter. Routers allow computers on local area networks to connect to the internet; you will have a small router (properly known as a modem router switch) at home to link your computer to a phone socket; and it is...
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The first geological map of the UK
History & The Arts

The first geological map of the UK

...research and continually made new discoveries, adapting and amending each new edition as he went along. Each individual map took seven or eight days to be coloured. McNamara said: “Smith suffered many deprivations in his life. He became a bankrupt and ended up in debtor's prison for a while. Perhaps, almost as galling, he was largely ignored by the geological...
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Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...research facilities that minimise their exposure to the terrestrial atmosphere. But going into space is expensive, and technically challenging. The OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa missions are some of the first to attempt returning rocky samples to Earth since humans went to the Moon some fifty years ago. Meteorites often come from asteroids, but they can also come from planets...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...research, but loosely defined, “sport” has been recorded since the beginning of documented history (The Epic of Gilgamesh from 3,500 years ago recounts scenes of wrestling and hunting) and it has been a regular mainstay of literature since then. But, exercise, as we might recognise it, being movement for the purposes of maintaining physical health, only becomes common...
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How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...be the largest global reservoir of microplastics The use of sewage sludge in agriculture in the UK is regulated by the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1263/made Listen to this BBC Inside Science episode discussing the new research trying to find the sources of the microplastics that are accumulating in UK riverbed...
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Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent
Education & Development

Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent

...research with colleagues to better understand their experiences. While neurodivergent people are all slightly different, this quote really resonated with what students often tell me: ‘I’m finding feedback really difficult because it just feels like I’m getting things wrong. And I take that to heart, and I know that’s not what they meant, they’re there to try and...
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