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Discovering the dark side of the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering the dark side of the Moon

...history of volatiles in lunar samples, specifically, the abundance, distribution and sources of water in the lunar interior. He has been involved in supervising over 25 PhD students and postdocs and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals of high-scientific standing. He currently chairs the UK-node of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual...
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Hidden Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Hidden Maths

...history of Maths; and whether you’re currently studying or not, you’ll find our free resources useful in working out everything from VAT to how much grass seed to order to re-do the lawn this summer. If you’re interested in studying Maths and Stats specifically, or taking a course that involves an element of these subjects, visit The Open University's Mathematics...
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Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...styles... Why are managers in the East happier to work with a greater level of ambiguity? Western culture has a history of emphasising rational thought and individuals identifying with their conscious mind. Tacit knowledge and changing the management culture Tacit knowledge is difficult to transfer but a culture that allows space for slower forms of thought can help...
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Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...history of survival, why is it now threatened? Below you’ll find a series of articles that explore the Amazon System and its natural resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the Amazon System need to do in order to continue surviving? Find...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...history and from the present day. Change needed now The study is published by the New Weather Institute and the STEPS Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of...
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...history and geography. At the heart of this new contradictory geography is the sugar plantation. It is geography that enables the sugar plantation to exist, by placing its horrors at a remove from the refined societies of Europe and America. It is the geography of plantations that allows sugar to be both cheap and a luxury. The sugar plantation anchors the transatlantic...
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The Problem with Pink
History & The Arts

The Problem with Pink

...history tell us anything about its links to femininity? Dr Emma Barker explores...[Madame de Pompadour by Francois Boucher 1759] Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher 1759 The idea that pink is feminine is something that we tend to take for granted. It works as a convenient shorthand – an obvious example is the wearing of pink ribbons to mark breast cancer awareness....
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