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Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...become spectacle; creative destruction presented as entertainment, played out on the media, on websites and in countless numbers of YouTube film clips. We can all join together in celebrating the removal of a blighted and failed urban past and, of course, in the bright new urban future to come. Bulldozing high-rise blocks, demolishing low-rise housing and clearing...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...become deranged. On Father’s Day in 2008, for example, a ”hostile, feral turkey” chased two cops onto their patrol car. A man who had raised the unfortunate Tom tried to help his pet when the officers shot and killed the terrorist turkey. Later, neighbors and a UPS delivery person corroborated the police view that Tom was indeed violent, and there was much concern...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...become a powerful resource for modern forensic science, and have even allowed old, unsolved cases to be reviewed with fresh evidence. When a person dies their DNA will begin to degrade, but this can take a long time. In fact, some tissues can provide DNA samples even after a body has been buried for some time. Bone and dental pulp, for example, are sometimes used as a...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...Becoming part of the established 'club' Most of the grassroots women’s teams are connected in some way to an existing men’s cricket club. People I spoke to from such clubs often referred to the difficulties that women’s teams faced integrating into the wider club that they were notionally part of. One County Development Officer, responsible for supporting several...
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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...becomes ironic, post-modern pastiche and so on in reuse. I am glad they are carrying on nonetheless - the interest of the genre for women writers and their success in reusing it seems to me to be specifically about taking on and considering as women the archetypal male modes which the Detective represented. Marlowe would say this is a lot of weak talk, I guess. Tom...
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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...become more ‘internal’ and take back control. Pick something that you are not happy with (it can be very small) and come up with a concrete plan of action on how you’re going to take control and tackle it. If there’s really nothing you can do to change the situation, consider how you could instead change your reaction to what’s happening. Don’t let other...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...become the bases for her Universal Systems Language (001AXES) and Development Before the Fact (DBTF) formal systems theory (Spicer 2017). In 1976 Margaret Hamilton co-founded Higher Order Software where she applied her skilled methodology to defence projects. In 1986, she left HOS to found Hamilton Technologies, to accelerate the evolution software technology and to...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...become increasingly rare, but a very few reach out even beyond the Moon’s orbit and are lost to Earth. The connected environment A Perfect Planet emphasises how different elements of our environment are interconnected. The atmosphere responds to varying heating by sunlight, driving movement. These motions in the troposphere are what we experience as wind. The oceans...
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