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Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...source of selenological samples, as many of the moon rocks returned to Earth by Apollo 11 were ejecta from the crater. To honour their achievement three small craters just to the north of the Apollo 11 landing site were named Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. With the supply of large craters having long since been used up these craters are no more than 5 km across....
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Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?
Money & Business

Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?

...sourcing. Exploiting cross-product and cross-country variation in treatment over time, we show that NAFTA rules of origin led to a sizeable reduction in imports of intermediate goods from third countries relative to NAFTA partners. In terms of magnitude, our estimates imply that imports of affected intermediate goods from non-NAFTA countries would have been around 45%...
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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...sourcing, reusing and recycling materials locally. There is no need to wait for another wave of high-tech innovation to save us, but we do need to invest substantial amounts in developing the necessary skills and knowledge so that we can implement (existing) technologies successfully. Secondly, we now have much more effective ways of engaging SMEs, including a number of...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...painting The Nightmare, with its impish demon squatting on the chest of a sleeping woman, comes to life; as does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. Thus it is that the sexual licence which drove Shelley’s philosophy becomes, in the story world of the film, a source not for legal or moral upheaval, but emotional anarchy....
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...sources of energy and water given diversity is required for redundancy – or having back-up in case of system element failure(s). Dynamic balance All the sub-systems making up the house that feeds are constantly fluctuating. Solar energy and water supply are subject to the weather and climate which are becoming more extreme. Food crops sometimes thrive and sometimes...
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Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?

...source of evidence to inform us on the likely origin mechanism (since we haven’t sent landers or humans to Mars’ moons yet) have only made the story more unclear. This highlights the need for a future in-situ mission to analyse material on the surface to shed light on this conundrum. The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), along with the space agencies of France and...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...source. She can ventriloquise convincingly and displays an extraordinary breadth of subject matter covering social history, science, music, history and politics in language that is always inventive, challenging and thought-provoking. References and further reading Sinéad Morrissey on The Poetry Foundation “The Millihelen”
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Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...sources that can be used to advance a reflexive and decolonial anthropology and sociology of religion. In the late nineteenth century, white, European anthropologists and sociologists posed themselves the following question: what were the origins of religion? They assumed that the answer to the question lay in a long distant past and they chose to answer it using two...
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