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Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...phrase used by Robinson in 2010 to describe the separate schools system, 'benign apartheid', has entered the debate again. This exchange is unusual in that both the Bishop and First Minster have for once eschewed the usually carefully nuanced and diplomatic public use of language on these sensitive debates and engaged in a high profile row conducted through the media. Why...
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Article 15 mins
Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...phrases. He was overcome by emotion: “Many were the things which made us different but there was a language which made us one… Early that morning, when I left, I had a softer heart than the day I arrived.” As a Catalan myself I have experienced this emotion. After years of teaching Spanish in Queen’s University, Belfast, a language I value the more I teach it,...
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Article 5 mins
What impact does your pet's food have on the environment?
Nature & Environment

What impact does your pet's food have on the environment?

...phrase has no legal meaning and does not necessarily connote anything about quality or nutritional value. To be sold as food for humans, a product must never leave the human food production chain. While this requirement sounds good, it adds unnecessary cost and may eliminate the use of many high-quality, sustainable ingredients that people normally don’t eat. Pets need...
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Article 5 mins
Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...phrase ‘Alhamdulillah’ (which translates as ‘All praise belongs to God’) was used numerous times by different women. All women in the study faced different identity challenges such as conflicts between their ‘Muslim’, ‘Deaf’ and other identities. Navigating their ‘Lebanese’, ‘Australian’ and ‘Woman’ identities also included other identities...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...types of wave as well as their properties. You can listen to the song of a humpback whale and learn about the process of echolocation which is used by dolphins to locate their food. You will also conduct your own online research into how bats use echolocation to locate their prey and also to prevent other bats from locating the same prey...This free course, What are...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...types of goods under their own house names, and began to place bulk orders with the small canners for their own varieties of the company's staple that fell within the class. As the small canners provided an extremely cheap article (having no marketing expenses and a cheaper raw material), they could undercut the manufacturers branded product, and within three years they...
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Article 5 mins
Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...types of cellular structure that were available were limited, due to the capabilities of traditional manufacturing processes. However, the introduction of additive manufacturing (a.k.a. 3D printing) has made it possible to fabricate an unimaginable range of shapes and structures and has consequently resulted in renewed interest in cellular structures and their...
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Article 5 mins
Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?

...types during early development. This creates a new opportunity to learn more about medical conditions linked to early cell positioning, including those that give rise to certain types of cancers of the nervous system and other debilitating diseases such as Waardenburg syndrome, Hirschsprung disease and Ondine’s curse, a respiratory disorder that is fatal if left...
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Article 5 mins