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Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...attention. All this activity has put Belfast on a global stage – as a place to visit, live, work and in which to invest. Seeing Belfast through the fresh eyes of outsiders is important when it comes to developing its reputation globally, especially with the continuing fragilities that exist in relation to the peace process and dealing with the past. The marketing...
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DIY: Make Your Own Soap
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Make Your Own Soap

...attention to every step in the process, our third attempt (again with potassium hydroxide) eventually produced a liquid soap. [using wood ashes] In this activity, we'll use a mixture of coconut and olive oil, with sodium hydroxide (sometimes called caustic soda), to make a solid soap. Homemade soap is particularly good for your skin because the glycerine formed as a...
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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...attention in lean systems was the just-in-time supply that is still evident as an industrial practice. Many components arrive just minutes before they are used on the assembly lines, placing burdens on suppliers and logistics to deliver the right mix of product absolutely on time. Originally this practice was partly borne out of need in the space-constrained Japanese...
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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...attention on racial discrimination in the women’s game. The strongly held view of women’s football as inclusive has sometimes led key stakeholders to deny the existence of racism in the sport. When claims are made to challenge this view, they invariably receive a hostile response. A number of well-known former Black and South Asian players have been successful in...
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The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...attention?...One of the most compelling pieces of evidence for Europa having an ocean was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft (Figure 1), which explored the Jupiter system from 1995 to 2003. [Photograph of the Galileo spacecraft during construction]Figure 1 Photograph of the Galileo spacecraft during construction at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, taken 5 years...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...attention to each stage in the process, and adding a delicate perfume of flowers, remains substantially unchanged to this day. Sunlight In the 1880s, William Lever leased a chemical works in Warrington, where he experimented with different ingredients to manufacture soap. He settled on a formula of palm kernel oil, cottonseed oil, resin and tallow, and named it Sunlight...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...attentively and think about how others feel? Are you attuned to others’ moods? Organisational awareness Do you appreciate the culture and values of the group or organisation? Do you understand social networks and know their unspoken norms? Influence Do you persuade others by engaging them in discussion and appealing to their self-interests? Do you get support from key...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...attention to the behaviours, reactions, clothing styles, interests (and so on) of neurotypical people, and try to copy those. These are not necessarily behaviours or strategies that autistic people are using consciously or on purpose. Some of those may have become intuitive to them after many years of ‘practice’, and they may not realise that they’re masking....
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