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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...work, we have an excellent system for providing care during the daytime, but provision of medical and nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing...
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...work, we know that light passing by heavy objects is bent ever so slightly. Dark matter is proposed to make up nearly quarter of all mass in the universe, so to find its presence, the Euclid mission will measure the bending caused by such matter to the light received from galaxies. The bending is so small that if radiation damage is not understood and dealt with, the...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Working Group 1 to the Fifth Assessment Report in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Online]. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf Accessed 18th January 2020 Looe Flood Protection Project https://looeharbour.com/projects/looe-flood-protection-project Accessed 22nd December 2019 The Guardian (2019)
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...P. (2013) Irish Emigration in an age of austerity. UCC: Cork, http://www.research.ie/intro_slide/research-funded-irish-research-council-irish-emigration-age-austerity http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/rural-ireland-can-she-fix-it-1.1898223 August 2014 Acknowledgements This material draws from Open University programmes and a course based on the work of Pat Jess....
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The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...works and power plants, thereby clogging them. Physical removal is costly and is a major nuisance. Impact of invasive species on biodiversity (South Africa) How do invasions happen? Invasions occur as a result of species being introduced into areas which they have not previously existed in. As such, species need to be transported to the new sites either through natural...
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Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus

...working from the results coming from the TV, so that’s our feed from Egypt. But for the sake of argument let’s say that you’re at one of the events around the UK, enter your own observation and click on the forward arrow. Lucie Right so I see there’s some timings here on the website. Does that mean you have to adjust your times depending on where you are in the...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...working week. When Instagram then blocked this as a search term, worried that it was flouting its standards of moral decency, the term gained even more notoriety – and the practice has since migrated to other, more broad-minded sites such as Tumblr. The term was also used in print when naked photos of the singer Chris Brown found their way online, and one gossip website...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...working at a wine cooperative. For.b counts 80 members, which include workers, volunteers and one investor, who caps his profit at a 2 percent return. Most of their investment capital comes from local credit unions. After an interview in their office on the top floor of a bustling building that also houses a day-care center and services for the developmentally disabled,...
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