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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...work of Coubertin; he was the first to formulate many Olympic principles – all sports, all nations, all people. In many ways Coubertin preserved Brookes’ life’s work; had the Olympics not been revived much of what Brookes had dedicated his time to would have been in vain. So, when you sit down to watch the Tokyo Games take a brief moment to consider that had...
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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) was established to collate historical records and maintain the official catalogue of proper names for stars of scientific and historical value. A casual internet search will reveal a plethora of companies who will readily sell you the right to name a star. While a friend or family member might appreciate the idea of being presented with...
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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...working with the stakeholders involved. A recent study I was involved in investigated online home-based businesses, these are home-based businesses that carry out the majority of their key activities online, such as web developers, online stores and online community sites. The entrepreneurs involved demonstrated highly effectual approaches. For example, a number of them...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...work for your individual needs. But remember: you need to be careful if you are using machine translation tools in assessment. If you want to use them like any other dictionary, to look up words or short phrases, you need to stick to the assessment guidelines and mention them in the reference section as a source you have used, just like you would do with any other source!...
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The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...work. It offers city dwellers day to day conveniences, like the GPS navigation apps which direct us around rather than through traffic jams. It generates data that cities could use to make spaces better too – for instance, that same traffic data that helps you avoid a tailback might in future help planners to improve road and public transport networks. This link between...
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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...work? Are there security risks in using a password manager? How can I protect my password manager? Should I use a password manager application? What are good password managers? Is a password manager a guarantee my accounts will be secure? [A padlock holds paperwork together] How secure are your important documents online? What is a password manager - and how can a...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...works of philosophy ever written, in metaphysics and aesthetics as well as in ethics, and is generally regarded as the most important philosopher since Aristotle. He wrote several works of moral philosophy, but the best-known is the short but enormously influential Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785), which has inspired many contemporary philosophers, including...
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Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...work, and its good relationships with parents and the wider community”. Yet with breathtaking arrogance, the government’s new white paper dismisses the role of elected parents as “tokenistic” and their role as purely “symbolic”. It looks to relegate them to something that sounds like a school-level cheerleader, who must now spend their time “focusing on...
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