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How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...de Oliveira Andrade...[Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Brazil.] Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas Ultrafine aerosol particles found in polluted urban air can contribute to more intense storms in the Amazon rainforest, with potential knock-on...
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Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)
Education & Development

Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)

...De Felice and Garretson (2021) define a workplace problem as ‘a state of affairs that affects one or more people negatively, and which requires some type of action’. In other words, it is something that can plausibly be solved, as opposed to a general complaint about a state of affairs. For example: For example: ‘This rain is so annoying!’ = a complaint, as there...
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My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...class of fifty students would sit in this room and I was wondering if students at the back would see my writing as they sat so far away. I considered my first lesson a success as students were very engaged in observing my demonstrations, taking notes and were well behaved. This is what I would expect in a Chinese classroom using the ‘teacher led’ teaching style. It is...
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True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...class should be opposed to the Common Market”. The EEC was “a capitalist institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the different countries within it”. The opposition was unequivocal: “No to the capitalists’ Common Market – on any terms.” In an explicit re-run of the point made in 1971, the IMG argued that “the job of...
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What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...class. Some studies partly support this notion, but there's also strong evidence that the anti-government and pro-government groups are only slightly different. According to a survey carried out by the Datafolha Research Institute at two recent protests in São Paulo (one pro-government and the other against), anti-government demonstrators were 13 percent more likely to...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...classes with additional seasonal kindergartens; but other types of provision, including play groups, mobile centres, and mobile services called "caravans" can be found. Primary and Secondary Education The development of primary education in China over the last sixty years has been a formidable achievement. In 1949, enrolment rates were around 20 percent of school-age...
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Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru
History & The Arts

Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru

...De Cymru, honnir mai i'w chwareli llechi y gall baswyr taranol gogledd Cymru ddiolch am eu cyseiniant cymaradwy. Mae'r cyhoedd, yn gywir ddigon, yn cysylltu'r côr meibion yng Nghymru a hanes diwydiannol Cymru. Gellir olrhain ei darddiad i ganol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Ymhen fawr o dro, sicrhaodd ensembles a oedd yn cynnwys dynion yn unig, a ddechreuodd fel cangen...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...de-centring politic, less concerned with a replication of its own ‘centres’” (p. 3). However, I remain somewhat undecided about the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be...
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