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Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...sustained injuries. Armed police forces are often present in the camp when we teach, but so far have left us to operate in peace. A UK-sponsored wall is currently being constructed around the Calais port. The conditions in the camp are inhumane and unsafe. Yet the camp provides many informal safety networks, community links and educational opportunities that aren’t...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...sustaining of genuine accountability and democratic control of complex policy areas than access to up-to-the-minute information and documentation. Moreover, countervailing interests to transparency, such as ensuring the confidentiality of decision-making are generally much less weighty as regards historic as opposed to contemporary records of matters of public concern....
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Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?
Nature & Environment

Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?

...sustained and perhaps less spectacular rise in numbers which, tsunami-like, is maintained for far longer, and spreads widely throughout the countryside. This is Britain’s real slug invasion. So what can we do about it? The trigger seems innocuous enough in isolation: a few non-native slugs from continental Europe have accidentally been introduced. Several of these...
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Flame cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Flame cutting

...sustained.) As a result of these requirements, normal flame cutting is usually confined to low carbon and low alloy steels. Most non-ferrous metals cannot be flame cut, although titanium, which does not fulfil the above requirements, can be successfully flame cut. Despite precautions, carburisation and hardening usually occur in the thin solidified “re-cast” layer....
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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...sustaining energy through internal nuclear reactions, is just one rather average star among more than a hundred billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. In turn, it is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies distributed throughout the observable Universe. With so many objects, it is not surprising that only the most prominent have names and most are identified by...
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No place like home: Prisons and homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

No place like home: Prisons and homelessness

...sustained place of habitation and dwelling, nor are prisons environments conducive to delivering care and the generation of a sense of ‘belonging’ and inclusiveness. Instead, the prison is characterised by sadness, melancholia, insecurity and a sense of loss. Prisoners long for a secure dwelling place where they can relax and be themselves, but the place...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...never be able to achieve relationships of respect and of trust. But when such relationships are possible, we must do our best to create and sustain them. We simply cannot afford not to. As Kant shows us, when trust breaks down, not only do we miss out on the benefits of cooperation, but we also lose something less tangible, but no less important: respect for one another....
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Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...sustain life with the power of the Virgin Mary herself. In this sense, the poem can be read as a celebration of women’s creativity and autonomy. On the other hand, you might have felt that the speaking woman is not a particularly human figure at all. She is compared with a series of physical objects and abstract values. Does this pillar, fire, wall, ‘knot of love’...
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