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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...adapt to convert resources into different kinds of capital and build new forms of capitals in new places over time, and what are limiting conditions (often, these are limited citizenship rights, limited access to skilled jobs, lack of recognition of qualifications, limiting migration policies). Starting all over again While we provide in-depth case studies in the article,...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...adapt to dramatically altered environments and climates ever since the apocalyptic colonisation of the world by Europeans. Whyte’s Potawatomi nation ancestors were forcibly removed from their forested territory to the arid lands of Oklahoma in the nineteenth century. Those who survived the relocation found resources for resilience in traditional environmental and...
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A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course
Science, Maths & Technology

A school reaches for the stars with an online astronomy course

...adapts to dark conditions such as in astronomical observing. On learning this, one of the pupils remarked: "We did this in biology!" Imaging celestial objects Participants in Astronomy with an online telescope will learn to find their way around the night sky, find out how telescopes and optical instruments work, and understand the different types of objects in the...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...adaptive model for improving upon the fragmentary form of serial fiction. As Dawson persuasively suggests, “What was necessary, in both paleontological reconstructions and the composition of serial fiction, was a flawless design that would preclude the possibility of such egregious conjunctions and instead ensure the harmony and proportion of the perfectly integrated...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...adapted as a freighter in case supersonic passenger travel became the norm. Compared to the competing McDonnell Douglas DC10 and Lockheed L1011 Tristar, the 747 was bigger and more expensive, carrying four instead of three engines (the most expensive components). But the fourth engine gave the plane a significant safety advantage in that it would retain much greater...
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The rise of the Roses
Health, Sports & Psychology

The rise of the Roses

...adapted from the game of basketball in America in 1891, netball was first played in England in 1895 at Madame Ostenburg’s College. At that time, vigorous exercise for women was not typically well received, but netball in England was accepted because ‘despite being vigorous games they appeared to conform to dominant understandings of femininity as a form of physical...
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Sherry is not just for Christmas
Science, Maths & Technology

Sherry is not just for Christmas

...adapted for the region and resistant to a wide variety of parasites. [Glasses with cold dry fino and sweet cream sherry fortified wine and orange in sunlights, andalusian style interior ] Once harvested, the grapes are quickly pressed and the stalks removed to give what is known as “must”. The pH of the must is adjusted with tartaric acid and sulphur dioxide passed...
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The first geological map of the UK
History & The Arts

The first geological map of the UK

...adapting and amending each new edition as he went along. Each individual map took seven or eight days to be coloured. McNamara said: “Smith suffered many deprivations in his life. He became a bankrupt and ended up in debtor's prison for a while. Perhaps, almost as galling, he was largely ignored by the geological establishment. However, he gained his due recognition...
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