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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...children playing; Punch and Judy, or the brash cacophony of amusement arcades. Whichever of these, and a host of other sounds, are brought to mind we clearly imagine the sounds of the seaside in a variety of ways. In turn this reflects our manifold uses and encounters with the coast and the ways in which these are invested with cultural meaning encapsulating our hopes,...
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Article 15 mins
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...researchers like Conti, Cross, Raymond and Cerrudo, it is possible to begin to get a sense of the increasingly complex landscape of smart city cyber security. The national security concerns around the broader IoT – as opposed to the narrower world of smart cities – are potentially even more profound. In his recent testimony on the “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the...
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Article 10 mins
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...research into the routes refugees take and the obstacles they face, and even talked to some of the people who facilitate their journey. Although we do use some documentary imagery and footage, we knew that we didn’t want to try to convey the harrowing nature of a refugee’s journey in a ‘game’ – it would have been impossible to try to, and we didn’t want to...
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Article 10 mins
Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...research, turning my monitor down from the default 95% to 55% resulted in no discernible difference in comfort or use, but cut my energy consumption for that one device by 10w, immediately. The equivalent of another 4.7 kg CO2e per year or almost £7 per year at today’s prices from a single device. The examples mentioned above all deliver savings in reduced wasted...
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Article 5 mins
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...researching with people living with dementia and their carers - Podcast – Open University in collaboration with The Parks Trust https://youtu.be/0QHAS88C-LU Vseteckova J (2019) Five Pillars for Ageing Well https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/mental-health/five-pillars-ageing-well Vseteckova J et al (2020) COVID-19 The effects of self-isolation and...
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Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...research into the conservation of bioplastics is crucial not only to improve their durability for use but also to ensure that bioplastic objects in museum collections are protected from degradation (Pye, 2016). This highlights an important aspect of sustainability for some items, namely balancing the eco-friendliness of materials with their preservation needs. As you...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 [1689]). US Declaration of Independence, 1776. Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Find out more Slavery Law and Power, is a research database set up by Holly Brewer with informative chapters on this broad area....
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...research on the contributions of Black people before and during the Tudor period. Transcript Encounters with historical events in genres that function as discursive actions within particular social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are created and sustained. Historical knowledge has the power to influence how...
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