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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...change, intrusion of untraditional, foreign ideas, and a sense of national decline have produced a massive backlash against ruling establishments. Sadly, the closure to the outside world they demand, if carried out, would plunge much of the world into economic depression and cause immense international conflict. We would be back in the 1930s, heading for disaster....
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An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...changes. It was not an easy task for the Chinese style of teaching to be truly accepted by British schools. When the Head teacher of Bohunt already had his preference on what makes a good lesson and who is to blame if things went wrong, we Chinese teachers had a hard battle to begin with. Discipline and teaching pedagogy: In the conversation between Mr Strowger and a...
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The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...change this home (the floor) by leaving a trace from their (home)land. The New Union Flag also started also from cutouts from a doormat printed in with the Union Jack, which I found online - made in black, white and grey colours rather than the traditional ones. I was looking for other ways of representing the diversity of the gallery’s neighbourhood and Brixton where I...
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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...changed our benefit systems. These are just a few examples of mathematics in our lives that immediately spring to mind, and I could go on and on. But this is not why mathematics fills me with wonder and awe. All I have said so far is that mathematics is a useful science, perhaps almost as useful as engineering. And that really would be missing the special nature of...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...change to “really start to shape the bigger frameworks that support the things that happen in our society. It was a nice bridge between different organisations, the academic context, and the third sector context.” Sarah’s doctoral thesis was on children’s rights and her work for The Open University now involves producing resources around children’s rights, among...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...change Foch’s mind, but to no avail. At the end of the negotiations, there was no handshake. Erzberger portrayed Foch in his memoirs as cold and forbidding, barely human. [erzberger signing ceasefire agreement on train carriage] Negotiating the armistice. Behind the table, from the right: the French General Maxime Weygand and Marshal Ferdinand Foch (standing), the...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...changes radically according to the target age group. Toys on the ground floor are aimed at infants, and then at progressively older children on each higher floor, ending with toys designed for tweens or early teens. On the ground floor, stuffed toys predominate, with anthropomorphised animals posed so as to invite cuddles, often with human-like smiles and wide-eyed...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...changing attitudes. J.C. Daniels, in his book on leopards, describes an incident in Madhya Pradesh in the 1950s showcasing tolerance taken to an extreme. A tiger killed a young boy and the half-eaten corpse was found a day later. The boy’s father left instructions” “Leave the body; the boy is anyway dead, at least let the tiger eat a full meal.” Such 'tolerance'...
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