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Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...energy returning to me. I might be a widow, but now I am an author too. For more information about me and my book, visit here. [Hazel Carter holding a copy of her book.] About grief: a reflection by an academic grief researcher Many of you reading this may resonate with some, or all, of what Hazel has discussed in this article. You may be surrounded by the most loving and...
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LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...energy: why the Good Friday Agreement helped the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement There has never been a better time to be LGBTQIA+ in Northern Ireland. The rights and protections afforded to LGBTQIA+ people in 2023 go beyond what I believe we could have envisioned in 1998 – not because they weren’t needed, but because the political will and societal acceptance needed...
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...energy. Thanks to new 3D printing technologies, researchers at the Open University, and elsewhere, can now investigate the properties of more complex honeycomb designs, including designs based on aperiodic tilings. Most excitingly, honeycomb material based on the hat tile show zero sideways stretching when squeezed - a rare and useful trait shared with natural materials...
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Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...energy-supplier/ Mae'r gyfrifiannell yn ystyried bod ambell gyflenwr cwbl adnewyddadwy (e.e. Ecotricity, Good Energy) yn buddsoddi yn y gallu i gynhyrchu mwy o drydan adnewyddadwy, ac mae rhai hefyd yn cyflenwi nwy gwyrdd sy'n cynnwys rhywfaint o fionwy. Yn y gyfrifiannell, rhagdybir bod trydan cwbl adnewyddadwy yn cynhyrchu llai o allyriadau na thrydan grid arferol. Ar...
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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini political system – it has rules, a community of people, and a system of authority. If it was a...
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...energies to protecting and growing the institution. Yet you don't need to be an expert in management or organisational behaviour, in the writings of Geoffrey Vickers, Russell Ackoff or other systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for...
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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...energy and environmental impacts of transport activities in our free course_ Transport and sustainability. _ 9: Dropbox [Dropbox logo] Founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is the answer to every scatty student's prayers. The idea came about when Houston kept forgetting to bring his USB stick to college to hand his assignments in (yeah,...
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Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018. pic.twitter.com/nAanMySqkt — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2018 Remembering Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist and ambassador of science. His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. May you keep flying like superman in...
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