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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...work transform responses to Climate Change? Find out as a Totonac totem travels to COP26...[Jun Tiburcio standing with his creation: Totem Latamat] Jun Tiburcio with Totem Latamat Jun Tiburcio, a Totonac multidisciplinary artist from the Mexican state of Veracruz, has felled and carved a tree into a totem that is travelling to Glasgow for the COP26 meeting. Tiburcio and...
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...working to keep the foundations solid. None of this happens by accident. It’s the result of years of sustained investment in the women’s game: not just in players, but in the infrastructure around them. Since 2009, nearly £50 million in National Lottery funding has gone into girls’ and women’s rugby. The Impact 25 legacy programme – World Rugby’s initiative...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...working on an engine bedded into the aeroplane fin. The four-engine 747 retained a clear place in the market because twin-engine planes must stay within a certain distance from an airport in case of engine failure. This allowed the 747 to achieve shorter journey times on the longest routes because it can use more direct flight paths. However, improving engine reliability...
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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

...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 precisely these...
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Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...works. Ellen will need to cover one of Kate’s arms with the repellent and leave the other arm clear, so she can show that only the arm without the repellent gets bitten. But that leaves another problem, mosquitoes carry diseases that they pick up from biting other people, so Ellen needs to raise mosquitoes from birth that haven’t bitten anybody yet and so will be...
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The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...work and I can hear myself absolutely speeding up beyond belief. SEAN Really? NICK You know, the track starts at one speed and ends up flat out. It’s almost as though it’s a race. SEAN Any particular tracks you care to mention? NICK No, I’m certainly not going to. END OF INTERVIEW Image acknowledgements for the audio stills 00:00 - 00:09: Image of Nick Mason -...
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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...Far from being pristine and rational, actual psychologies are messy, which puts a limit on the extent to which morality can be straightened out. Thinking about what you think of the two tours might help you work out on which side of this divide you fall. Find out more on why people celebrate Jack the Ripper Interested in Philosophy? Try our interactives and free course...
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Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?

...work quite happily as a nurse, a fire-fighter, or a teacher. A growing religion Spiritualism as a religion started in the United States in the late 1840s. The first Spiritualist church in the UK opened in 1853 in Keighley, Yorkshire, with the first UK national conference of Spiritualists taking place in Manchester in 1890. Although a relatively young religion,...
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