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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

...account replete with a meme of a cat wearing a lab coat (@SeriousAcademic). Amongst the outrage, cats and memes was a debate on what new technologies mean for academic work and the university. For universities, digital technologies bring major changes to the way that teaching, research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures,...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...account by Rodolfo-Metalpa et al. Also the resistance has to do with the food that is provided to those organisms, for example, in the Baltic, which is naturally acidified, the mussels are resisting quite well to ocean acidification, but there is a lot of food, and experimentally we show that organisms provided with enough food can resist ocean acidification better than...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Accountant, male, 40, Prestwick) But there were negative comments too: 'My friends seem to think it's a clever piece of eyewash to retain the capitalist system by getting the people on its side'. (Student, male, 22, Enfield) "A lot of blah" is the most frequent remark from the women in the factory. "Don't believe a word of it; we're 'eard these promises before". (Stores...
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What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...account an individual’s emotions. For example, everyone performs at their best when they are within their pre-performance anxiety zone; this allows for the differences that might vary on a sprinter’s performance compared to an endurance marathon runner. Similarly, a pilot might need to manage or ‘psych up – psych down’ their arousal levels for different stages...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...account of such an eruption (Vesuvius in AD 79) was written by Pliny the Younger. The eruption destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killed over 3500 people (one of whom was Pliny the Elder). [Vesuvius [Image: Alexandra Svatikova under CC-BY-SA licence]] Vesuvius [Image: Alexandra Svatikova under CC-BY-SA licence] A plinian eruption may last for hours or...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...account of what knowledge is. To know something, Socrates says, you must have experienced it or figured it out for yourself. To know how to get to Thessaly, for example, you need to have travelled the route yourself. To know a truth in mathematics or philosophy, you need to have figured it out for yourself – in particular, you need to understand not only that it is...
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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...accountability. Also consider the importance of… [Person scrolling on smart phone] Social networks are crucial in managing bereavement where deep connections can form and grow and continue to bind us together. Talk to friends and family. Mental health champion at work. Employee Assistance Programmes. Online communities such as Cruse and MIND. At the best of times we can...
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The Life of Saint George
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint George

...account given us by Metaphrastes, he was born in Cappadocia, of noble Christian parents. After the death of his father, he went with his mother into Palestine, she being a native of that country, and having there a considerable estate, which fell to her son George. He was strong and robust in body, and having embraced the profession of a soldier, was made a tribune, or...
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