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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...world as well as the diversity of those who live in it is mind-bogglingly fascinating. From the biodiverse tropical jungles of Amazonia, to the unique fauna of Australia; from the species-rich grasslands of temperate Europe to the extremely acidic and salty pans of the rift valley in East Africa, life in our blue and green planet is richly diverse and still largely...
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Safe computing
Digital & Computing

Safe computing

Tracking the security threats in the connected world - and how you can protect yourself from them
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What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...world. As we write in Nature today, the global environmental community is particularly concerned by Trump’s anti-climate and broader anti-environmental stance during his presidential campaign. Trump’s more extreme campaign statements may not eventuate. But there will most likely be substantive changes in how the United States engages with the world on environmental,...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...worlds in which I live, to find out what it is ‘we’/I don’t know. Knowledge needs to be diverse and flexible – while remaining robust – if it is to become something really useful in a complex and often intolerant world in which globalisation and technology increasingly compress time and space, bringing diversities into sharp relief with major human consequences....
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...world. Monisha discovered at the end of her journey that, ‘Trains would always be an open window into the soul of a country and its people’. It wasn’t always easy, the trains were variable in terms of comfort, safety and reliability but it was always surprising. In her best-selling account of the journey, ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ (2019) Rajesh describes a...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...world...[A cartoon of famous left-handed characters and figures including Napoleon, Bart Simpson and Garfield.] What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Toulouse Lautrec, Robert De Niro, Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Lewis Carroll, Bart Simpson, Harpo Marx, Spike Lee, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Uri Geller, Albert Einstein, Napoleon Bonaparte, Aristotle, Marie Curie,...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between the disasters presented by global and social media and the debilitating mood that...
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