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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...physical space, a 'radical garden', in which purple sprouting broccoli, and political ideas, will grow. There are already suggestions from local people: that the space be re-claimed for allotments (there is a shortage in the town); or that it be kept 'wild' as an extension of the new South Downs National Park; or that the school building be fixed up as an community...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...physical and mental wellbeing, and as ‘risky’ in relation to others, in terms of youth crime and anti-social behaviour. The violent disturbances in some English cities in August 2011 were the latest events to trigger vigorous debate,about the state of British youth in general, but with a particular focus on the so-called ‘problem’ of boys. Media pundits and...
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English monsters
History & The Arts

English monsters

...physical presence of dogs. Stephano and Trinculo, the drunken sailors in The Tempest (1611), after committing the typically vagrant crime of stealing clothes, are beset by ‘divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, hunting them about’; and in Shirley’s Triumph of Peace (1634), a masque performed before Charles I, beggars are ‘pursued by mastiffs that came...
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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...physics. Exciting new applications appear daily, such as advances in 3D printing with plastics (Figure 1), novel antibacterial plastics and the development of new bioplastics that are not derived from petroleum. [Water Pollution with Trash Disposal of Waste at the Garbage Beach] Figure 2: Plastic pollution littering a beach Unfortunately the long lifetime observed for...
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Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?

...physical or biological process, or anything at all that you care to measure, would indeed happen more slowly when moving rapidly, as viewed from a stationary view point. Special relativistic time dilation has been measured many times in laboratory experiments, and the results agree precisely with Einstein’s predictions. One such example concerns the subatomic particles...
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Is democracy a good thing?
Society, Politics & Law

Is democracy a good thing?

...physical and intellectual stamina; it also requires mastery of the science and art of navigation. If that is true of the relatively simple task of captaining a ship, it is surely much, much, more obviously true of ‘captaining’ a state. The second stage concerns the procedure for selecting such experts. A democratic selection procedure is to find the person who is most...
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Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...physical impacts that are distant in time and space, using a mix of footage of glaciers and windfarms. But the journalist is talking at a kitchen table and she reaches to turn off a light switch. It’s all very down to earth and practical. The thing I note here is how the Newsround team have taken enormous care over the editorial tone that frames the story of climate...
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Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
Nature & Environment

Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate

...Physical threats due to increases in volatile weather events, such as extreme heating, freezing, flooding, fires, storms, and droughts. These can disrupt whole supply chains including those organisations it lends money to or invests in, leading to major changes in the allocation of funds to businesses and individuals. The transition to net-zero pathways, including policy...
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