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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...system begins to develop, and I think we're human because of our wonderful nervous systems. And 14 days is enough, because what we what to do is research in the dish, we don't want to research using surrogate mothers." On the future: "I think there will be a range of options available for curing people of disease and trauma and they will include therapies that have come...
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Article 30 mins
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...think it’s had more citations as a result if that’s something you’re interested in, so that more people reference your work but just a broader dissemination of your work. As long as you accept that as an academic you’re never going to make any money from academic publishing and actually what you want most of all is get your ideas out there as widely as possible...
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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...think something called a streaming instability is the key. This sounds complicated, but it's not dissimilar to a traffic jam, or a bunching up of all the dust in a planet-forming region into one place. Amazingly, the research carried out on parabolic flights by OU academics and researchers backs up this idea. The icy particles collide, then slow down and start rotating....
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SecureDrop
Society, Politics & Law

SecureDrop

...system...[Secure Drop logo] SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. It was originally created by the late Aaron Swartz and is currently managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation. It was initiated by a non-governmental organisation/charity and...
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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...system of plant and animal classification that is still in use today in a modernised form, showed an inclination towards the ability of species to mutate, as a result of his observations of variations among species. In the early 19th Century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck presented a clearly stated evolutionary theory. This theory, later known as 'The...
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Article 30 mins
How was the US election viewed in the Middle East
Society, Politics & Law

How was the US election viewed in the Middle East

...think he will be a disaster for the US, and they think the American system is utterly corrupt, and deserves him. 5) There are mixed feelings about Obama While the most common attitude among Palestinians seems to be that Obama has been the same as all presidents before him, I did come across a view on both sides of the divide that differed a little from this: one man in...
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Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...systems, alongside hierarchies of power relations that persist. Transcript. Decolonising to reimagine better futures We need to reimagine better futures. What I found in observing these films is that some of these voices do help us think about how this is possible and rethink what’s at stake and what are the challenges we need to recognise and confront. Transcript....
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Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...think that living an "alternative" lifestyle has to mean painful and radical changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and...
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