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Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific

...Central, based on the recent paper by Kulp and Strauss (2019). References Edwards, T. (2017) Future of the Sea: Current and Future Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the UK, FORESIGHT, Government Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Accessed 25th January...
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What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?

...central London, Washington or Mumbai. Monitoring threats There are several international observing programmes using automated telescopes specifically dedicated to mapping all “Near-Earth Objects”. These are asteroids with a closest approach to the sun of less than 1.3 Astronomical Units – one such unit is the distance between the Earth and the sun. A special watch...
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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...Central Europe Trust – a consultancy that has worked with “Europe’s colossal coal polluter”. More recently, he reappeared as chairman-for-life for the climate denying Global Warming Policy Foundation. Lawson currently lives in the South of France, where I can attest the morning air is as clear as a stoney Pape Clément Blanc. But the transfer of powers from...
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Human impacts on the lives of animals
Nature & Environment

Human impacts on the lives of animals

...Central America and was introduced to Australia and several Pacific islands to control a beetle pest of sugar cane. Bullfrogs are farmed around the world to supply food in the form of frogs’ legs; when they escape they rapidly become established and displace native frog species. The movement of animals around the world is one of the most dramatic ways that humans have...
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Lessons from Covid-19: It’s time for a radical approach to homelessness and housing policies
Society, Politics & Law

Lessons from Covid-19: It’s time for a radical approach to homelessness and housing policies

...central government with an opportunity to rethink the statutory safety net for people who are homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. The ramifications of the economic fallout of Covid-19 are slowly becoming apparent and it’s crucial that we avoid the same crippling austerity measures that led to the sharp increase in homelessness and an unprecedented wave of...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...central to spoken face-to-face conversation – speakers and listeners act like a musical ensemble, sharing the same beat as they respond to each other and take turns. Timing in online interactions is somewhat different, but equally important. Short response times, for example, can suggest intimacy, urgency, approval, presence; delayed replies may suggest a lack of...
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Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...central Clydeside. From a relatively small town in 1800, by the end of the 1800s Glasgow was a key location in the ‘workshop of the world’, with Clyde-built ships, locomotives and engineering products being exported across the Empire and to places and countries beyond. [John Atkinson Grimshaw - Shipping on the Clyde (1881)] Shipping on the Clyde, Atkinson Grimshaw,...
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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...central function of sex is reproduction – exactly the same assumption that seems to lie behind scientific enquiries into sexual pleasure in other species. Various cultures maintain that sex is not connected to conception, though – most famously the Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific. New reproductive technologies have meanwhile separated sex and reproduction: it...
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