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What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...work the only option available for them to earn some kind of income. Efforts are being made to raise awareness of LGBT issues, especially in the last few years. In 2015, informal LGBT activists and the Jordan-based LGBT-inclusive magazine My.Kali organized a small event in central Amman for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), where...
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Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...working and as our blood circulates regularly it also speeds up our basic metabolic rate. This means that all organs will be working at a more optimal level compared to when we are sedentary. Walking, as other types of exercising, prompts us to breathe regularly which means that we are increasing the overall blood oxygen levels, that supports our brain and other organs to...
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Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?

...work leading to the discovery of gravitational waves, first announced in February 2016. Since then, detecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes has started to feel like familiar territory – with four further such events detected. But as far as we know, colliding black holes offer purely a window on the dark side of the universe. We haven’t been able to...
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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...work. The UN Charter advocates for women’s equality and empowerment. Equality, equity and diversity are enshrined in the founding principles of the United Nations, the world’s most important institution tasked with enabling our collective peace and security. Guterre’s himself upheld this commitment by championing gender equality in UN programming and women now make...
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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

...worked by humans. They are both relatively easy to reclaim from the rocks in which they’re found, and are easy to work. Gold is extremely unreactive and doesn’t tarnish like most other metals. Consequently, gold jewellery can survive essentially unchanged for thousands of years. Gold is also extremely heavy, with a density of 19.4 g cm-3. The density of lead, by...
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico have detected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They’re not getting too excited about the prospect of an alien civilisation contacting us just yet though. “In case you are wondering, the recurrent aliens hypothesis is at the bottom of many other better...
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From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...work at my TEDx Presentation there. I spoke about how assistive technologies can be life-changing and vital to the independence of many, and how there is a need to address the gap. [Hands of a person using a computer with braille computer display] Following on from this, in the same year, my academic path continued with a Master of Knowledge Exchange at the University of...
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The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment
History & The Arts

The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment

...work Ways of Seeing – and, indeed, early film scripts tend to display Moneypenny as the passive recipient of Bond’s attention, relegating her own desire, much like her desk, outside the centre of power. Similarly, in Ian Fleming’s novels, Moneypenny “functions as an object of desire, chiefly because she basks in the power that radiates from M”, as UK academics...
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