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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...social division underlying this debate tends to be between the middle class and the working class. But this referendum was about something different. With immigration featuring as one of the central issues, it was a division between “social liberals” and “social conservatives”. The former tend to be comfortable with the diversity that comes with immigration, while...
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From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?
Society, Politics & Law

From the 'Red Clyde' to the 'Blue Clyde'?

...social and political change in their respective contexts. [raising of the Red Flag in George Square Glasgow in 1919] The first image (above) depicts the raising of the Red Flag in George Square Glasgow in 1919. [The Yes campaign supporters in George Square, Glasgow 2014 as part of the Scottish referendum] The second image displayed above is from a demonstration of...
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Can dogs read their owners' emotions?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can dogs read their owners' emotions?

...interacting species is very difficult. For one thing, you can’t ask a dog how it’s feeling. So while many people can describe how their dogs respond to their emotional states – typically in ways we humans consider appropriate and perhaps even desirable – scientific evidence and explanation for this ability has mostly been elusive. However, a new study, published...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...Social and Political Union, also advertised and energised itself visually from the start. Its banners were key to the campaign, and we have one of its most striking examples here to discuss today. Mary Lowndes was a painter and stained glass artist, born in Dorset, who founded the Artists’ Suffrage League in 1907. She made this banner in 1908, a key year for the...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...social media, whether to promote themselves or to be seen to appear enthusiastic. Within a week of hitting the web, the article had garnered over 300 comments, 3,000 shares, one jocular counter piece and a small storm on Twitter whose apex took the form of a parody account replete with a meme of a cat wearing a lab coat (@SeriousAcademic). Amongst the outrage, cats and...
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Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages
Science, Maths & Technology

Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages

...interact with the cell surface because of their charge and surface properties that make them accumulate into cancer cells that are characterized by leaky blood vessels and not into healthy cells or by “receptor-mediated” interaction of nanoparticles with the cell surface. In the second approach, molecules that bind to specific receptors expressed by cancer cells are...
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...social media in connecting with new audiences...Abbie Barnes Abbie is a 19 year old semi-professional filmmaker and photographer who specialises in promotional shorts, and wildlife conservation and expedition-style productions. She currently produces every aspect of her work, from research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of...
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Video 30 mins
Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...Social labelling is a signpost intended to help time-poor shoppers make quick and responsible choices. Social labelling or ‘eco’-labelling on clothing should reassure us about the back story of the item, for example, were the garment workers paid fair wages; was any environmental harm caused by the processing of the textiles; was child labour used to harvest the...
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