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What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?
Money & Business

What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?

...based on real scientific evidence? A common piece of advice is to turn your thermostat to 21°C to ensure an energy efficient and comfortable home. However, work by my colleagues and I found older thermostats can easily vary by up to 2°C, meaning we could actually be heating our homes to anything between 19°C and 23°C. If we consider the Energy Savings Trust’s advice...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...based lightsabers would never clash against each other. They would simply pass through one another with no effect. What’s more, a laser focuses light in one direction so sharply that you can’t see it unless you look directly down its axis. This is the reason why lasers used in clubs need smoke or fog to be seen. The smoke particles act as tiny scatterers that spray...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...based on migrant networks, they often employ fellow migrants and provide their services to customers, many of whom are migrants themselves (Jones, et al., 2014). However, in spite of a few successes that have resulted in sizeable enterprises, migrants’ enterprises are still, at large, characterised by ‘small scale low value-added production with low skill labour the...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...based on class, race or gender. Key, in this regard, is preventing private actors from unduly influencing the government and its institutions to their own advantage. Corruption in the form of “kickbacks”, are therefore illegal and heavily regulated. However, many fear that through sponsorship corporations may be legally violating this principle of government...
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Driven to drink?
Society, Politics & Law

Driven to drink?

...based in Britain may need a translation if they are to get to grips with the title. The Elks of the title refers to the US-based, men-only (until the 1990s) fraternal and charitable body, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The acronyms stand for the legislation Driving Under the Influence and the advocacy group, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the phrase...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...base. Until that point, May Gaskell, as she was known, funded the library along with her brother, Beresford Melville, and a few wealthy and influential friends, some of whom included politicians. Lady Battersea offered her Marble Arch mansion, then standing empty, to house the donated books. Viscount Samuel, the Postmaster General, wrote later of his pleasure at heading...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...based on race, gender, sexuality or disability, linguistic disadvantage is far more difficult to recognize. Partly this is due to the fact that Australians who speak English as their first language have fewer and fewer opportunities to learn another language and hence are poorly equipped to relate to the challenges of language learning. As a result, discussions of...
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Bumblebees
Nature & Environment

Bumblebees

...base of the tin; the tin is then suspended from a tree or post with the stems horizontal, pointing towards the sun and angled so that they don’t fill with water. There's also this blog guide on how to build a mason bee house in 5 minutes. For bumblebees that nest at ground level Acquire an old teapot, place a small amount of cotton wool or waste inside and bury it with...
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