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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...social and environmental aspects that are often less obvious. One such characteristic is what is known as the digital carbon footprint. The term encapsulates the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions attributable to the digital products and services we purchase, use, and dispose of. The intangibility of the digital services we rely on has lured us into a false sense...
20 years in the family courts: from closed doors to open justice
Society, Politics & Law

20 years in the family courts: from closed doors to open justice

...social media). This could become problematic if families assume that the transparency order applies to them as well. It would be unfortunate if the opening up of the family court system led to parties being held more frequently in contempt of court. In 2026, it is therefore probably too soon to say that there is open justice in the family court system, as most cases still...
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...Social Security and Medicare without raising taxes or cutting benefits. The Fox debate, however, will likely be remembered for one significant moment: Donald Trump’s warning that he might run as an independent candidate in 2016. That spells big long-term trouble for the GOP. As an independent, third-party candidate, Trump would have the money, the flamboyance, and the...
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...social and imaginative world Carroll and his young friend inhabited in and around Oxford. For instance, during the Mad Tea-Party the Dormouse tells a story about three little sisters, Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well. As Martin Gardner points out in The Annotated Alice, the sisters’ names are coded references to the three Liddle...
Sustainable chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainable chemistry

...work and economic growth (depicted by a bar chart with an arrow trending upwards) 3 – Good health and wellbeing (depicted by a pulse line and heart) 14 – Life below water (depicted by a fish swimming in water) 6 – Clean water and sanitation (depicted by water in a glass) 13 – Climate action (depicted by an eye with the iris and pupil coloured like the surface of...
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Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...work with Hollywood film and television producers, courted then distanced itself from Homeland. In September 2013, the show’s cast were given the red carpet treatment as guests of honour at the CIA’s Langley headquarters. Perhaps not coincidentally, the third season, which began to air the following week, offered the most sympathetic portrayal of the CIA in the series...
Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Obama's Iran legacy under threat?

...working relationship between the lead negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif. Their evident personal chemistry was further enhanced by the connection between the number two negotiators, Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi, who unbeknownst to each other had studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the...
Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...worked out what they saw. They worked out what they understood about the human body and the effects of pressure on it and they said: “Well, look, your lungs are going to be crushed and you’re going to be spitting blood by the time you’re at 30 or 40 metres. So there’s no way that you can do this on breath-hold diving. It just can’t be done.” But of course,...