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...work to diversify and democratise the decision-making process in space governance. I think one major obstacle to having respect for the space environment is the fact that it appears lifeless. Many humans have a strong life-bias and therefore find it hard to care for an environment in which there is no life. However, this is also a question of which peoples’ views are...

...work with 3D-printed PLA designs, demonstrating the creative potential of bioplastics. [Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP) logo] References Abe, M.M., Martins, J.R., Sanvezzo, P.B., Macedo, J.V., Branciforti, M.C., Halley, P., Botaro, V.R. and Brienzo, M. (2021) Advantages and Disadvantages of Bioplastics Production from Starch and Lignocellulosic Components. Polymers,...

...social aspects of testing. It is much easier for people to provide their own nasal swabs or a saliva sample to test, but such samples are more likely subject to variability and saliva samples generally have less virus to test. This means that higher sensitivity is needed. You can see that there is a trade-off between speed, accuracy and convenience in the different tests....

...working out where the risks lay when making assumptions about them if they are ambiguously or poorly reported. The questions that statistics asks At its heart, statistics is concerned with asking the following questions: is this thing the same as another thing, given things vary? Or: is this thing or these things behaving in a particular way, given things vary? Or: how...