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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...are restricting homeless people’s freedom, and turning everyday activities into punishable offences. Yet survival defines the daily lives of homeless people, and in the face of oppression they will find new ways to expose the violence and prejudice they encounter in the every day. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...everyday lives after all. The problem is, what we do when we discover that sometimes, jurors use problematic beliefs to shape their stories. Research has shown that many different types of biases influence juror decision making, including but not limited to racial biases and rape myths. Rape myths are false beliefs relating to the act of rape, and the accused and...
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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...everyday lives of millions of people, due to their cheap farming and cooking versatility. But not everything in the potato garden is rosy. The potato plant has developed a mechanism to protect itself from predators: it contains toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, which do no harm to the plant itself but, if ingested by us, can cause awful symptoms including headaches...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...everyday use of the word 'system', as in e.g. 'transport system' (used synonymously with 'system of interest'). Measure of performance The criteria against which the system is judged to have achieved its purpose. Data collected according to measures of performance are used to modify the interactions within the system. Mess A mess is a set of conditions that produces...
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Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
History & The Arts

Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast

...everyday life in Belfast with jubilant scenes inside the Ulster Hall as people on both sides of the debate come together and sing. It is also accompanied by a voiceover from Gallagher stating how much Belfast means to him. The powerful clip shows how music can create “amicable cross-community interactions”, bridging the sectarian divide and building a new sense of...
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Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...everyday life at Pikpa. Its beautiful images combine with a provocative argument about the power and practice of solidarity. The photographs of world-class, professional photographer Knut Bry are presented alongside those by young refugees living in the camp. This envisioning of solidarity with refugees is radically unlike mainstream media images of refugees because they...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...everyday decisions were evaluated through an environmentally conscious lens, I realised that the traditional ways of making art do not align with my views anymore. Therefore, my next challenge was to try to find creative ways of expressing them using both the material itself and the object concept. My work is not intended to look beautiful, to be defined as a decorative...
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Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...are restricting homeless people’s freedom and turning everyday activities into punishable offences. Yet survival defines the daily lives of homeless people, and in the face of oppression, they will find new ways to expose the violence and prejudice they encounter every day. Transcript This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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