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TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...energy. Technology, he claims, will get us out of this. However, in common with Patricia Fara’s review, I believe that scientific enquiry and its technological consequences are not necessarily “progressive” at all. “Progress” is a huge contributor to the crisis we face: it is the positive image that Western powers have invoked in order to justify colonialism,...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...energy and poetic force, summoning riddles and fairytales for the empowerment of women. Traynor’s ‘Onion Poem’ from Pit Lullabies demonstrates her acute awareness of female rites of passage and often they are misrepresented within power structures: in this case, the catholic school she attended where in the yearly assembly girls were addressed by nuns who compared...
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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...energy came in 1854. 6. Tourists spent over £430 million in Belfast in 2022 Every year, over 9.5 million visitors arrive. They support over 17 thousand tourist jobs across the city area. What to do once they're there? Here's an amazingly cute idea... 7. Belfast Zoo is home to the only Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos in the United Kingdom and Ireland The zoo is only one of 22...
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Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?

...energy nuclei originating from the depths of space) that strike atoms in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. If the number of muons liberated in the upper atmosphere is measured at the top of a mountain, then knowing the lifetime of a muon and the fact that they are travelling close to the speed of light, it’s possible to calculate the proportion of muons that should...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...energy and sense of threat, that cannot be seen but are nevertheless conveyed. Transcript This beautiful, evocative video film, created by a group of Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, is framed around Mwaffaq’s poem to Mother Earth. Bringing together reflections on multiple overlapping crisis around inequality, migration, health and environment, the film takes us on a...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...energy. However, even all this computer power is not enough; a good part of ChatGPT’s success lies in the use of humans. Even after the computerised training process was complete, ChatGPT often produced rambling, incoherent or irrelevant results. People were brought in to fine-tune its responses. They taught ChatGPT how to answer certain types of queries, to structure...
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Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...energy). This area is referred to as the cell body. The final key structure is the axon. The axon consists of an area called the axon hillock which integrates all the different inputs across the dendrites and, if sufficient to excite the neuron, this region will initiate an electrical impulse, referred to as an action potential. The action potential will travel the length...
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When is the best time to water during a heatwave?
Nature & Environment

When is the best time to water during a heatwave?

...energy for growth. Plants also need water to carry nutrients from the soil to the growing cells. This water is drawn up to replace water lost through stomata – the breathing holes in leaves. These stomata are needed for gas exchange – carbon dioxide in, oxygen out – during photosynthesis. In high light levels, on sunny days, a lot of carbon dioxide is fixed to make...
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