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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...At an industry, organisational or enterprise level, we have the potential to make changes whose effect multiplies across our communities to give significant scale. More on digital carbon footprints This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
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Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...working to some extent. It would be interesting to know if these players were early specialisers. However one could also argue that the current system encourages early talent identification and specialisation which can often fail to distinguish between potential and performance and so for those players such as Cowan-Dickie and Itoje that make it to the top level many...
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Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...work during two years of COVID-19 lockdowns during 2020 and 2021 (College Employers Scotland, 2022). The employers insisted the proposed one-off payment would not be consolidated into the lecturers’ cost of living pay uplift. This was despite the union negotiators reducing their cost-of-living claim of £2,000 to £1,300 (EIS.org, 2022b). [A group of lecturers, men and...
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Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?
History & The Arts

Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?

...work, Plath was creatively preoccupied with ideas and images of doubleness, death, rebirth, and reinvention. The young Plath, like the teenage Swift, was an obliging All-American blonde, who coyly posed for cheesecake shots of swimwear fashions for the Cambridge University newspaper Varsity in 1956. It was this unthreatening image that she was later to violently reject in...
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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...with philosophy”. Transcript References Hobbes, Thomas. (2017 [1651]). Leviathan. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Spinoza, Benedictus de. (2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and politics...
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Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...work; it is more expensive than conventional paint protection but is finding increasing use in the motor industry. Where does zinc come in our activity series? We have argued that to coat steel with a metal that does not oxidize in air makes sense, so it seems odd to use a metal that oxidizes even more readily than does iron. Zinc, like aluminium, oxidizes easily. It also...
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Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...working and suggests that team management and tactical decisions might be taking priority over the health of players. [David Luiz of Arsenal clashes heads with Raul Jimenez of Wolves during the Premier League match between Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Emirates Stadium on November 29, 2020] David Luiz and Raul Jimenez - Jimenez was stretchered off following a...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...work in progress. With ambitious and well-funded teams operating both in WSL2 and the regional national leagues below this, the challenge to get promoted when often there is only one promotion place available is intense. The challenge for the women’s game is similar to the challenges in the men’s National League System (NLS) that operates below the Premier League and...
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