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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...accounts for around one-quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing. Washing less frequently, using larger loads, tumble drying less and following the care label all make a difference to how long a t-shirt will last and could cut the carbon footprint by 7%. Half of the 120 million t-shirts that are no longer wanted in the UK each year go on to be reused. The other 50% go...
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...accounts for perhaps a quarter of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and between 10% and 14% directly from agriculture. But, they reason, since soils hold three times as much organic carbon as exists in carbon dioxide form in the atmosphere, better management of the terrestrial planet could help reduce emissions too. So, the trick is: don’t degrade healthy...
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Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...account outlining why this could have been the wrong decision...[Assisted dying illustration showing paliament with a ill person's hand - society matters illustration] As the dust precariously settles on the parliamentary vote in September that rejected the “right to die,” I shake my head at the polarised debate that missed a trick. What we need is not the ability to...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...accountable for their actions. One study found that jurors who held rape myths were more likely to acquit defendants in sexual assault cases over any other trial type, even when the evidence was strong, and the victim’s testimony was credible (Finch and Munroe, 2005). The study also found that jurors who held rape myths were more likely to engage in victim blaming, such...
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...accounting, University of Southampton In many aspects, the budget delivered by Osborne was full of ambition and the measures proposed on business taxes were no exception. The chancellor made it clear that to fund the giveaways for small businesses and individuals, additional revenues will need to be raised from big corporations. To achieve this, there will be further cuts...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...account of the origin of the story. I am the more willing to comply, because I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?" It is true that I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print; but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...accounts of the developments of hip hop, see Toop, 1991; Rose, 1994; Chang, 2005; Chalfant, 2006). The Bronx represents a universal myth that can be used by global hip hop practitioners to imagine old school authenticity in their local contexts. The two terms ‘hip’ and ‘hop’ are themselves important words for the practitioners’ understanding of the culture. One...
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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...account of today's context understand how a business manager can support teaching and learning and all stakeholders understand and use a range of analytical tools apply these analytical tools to your school's situation, in particular responding to government agendas understand how benchmarking data can be used to compare and contrast expenditure and resource...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs