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15 minutes on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

15 minutes on Mars

...history of Mars, investigate the environment on the planet today and find out where the future might take us. Click here or on the image below to launch the interactive [Illustration of Mars in space] Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. [AstrobiologyOU logo]This article is part of the...
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Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...family members and friends, he set out for Kufa from Medina where he had been living. A large detachment of soldiers sent by the governor of Iraq, a supporter of Yazid, intercepted them at Karbala. Though the people of Kufa had invited him to their city, they did nothing to help, and Husayn’s party suffered terribly from thirst in the heat of the desert. After several...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...history of women’s role in workplace struggles in Scotland over the past 120 years or so. Important investigations and research have already been done in this area but more excavation and discussion of women’s key involvement in struggles around issues such as equal pay and conditions of employment remains to be done. [Striking women workers employed by Glasgow City...
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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...family, signalled to me and everyone else on the ward that my grandfather had been identified by the medical personnel as someone who they were not willing to ‘work on’ anymore. From that moment on it appeared that the clinical staff's behaviour around my grandfather changed, as if he was doomed in some way. Although a ‘do not resuscitate’ form – also known as a...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk. Although raised as a Quaker in ‘name only’, in 1798 a young Elizabeth decided to fully embrace the Quaker faith and traditions. Just two years later, she married tea merchant Joseph Fry, and the couple moved to London. In the intervals between child-bearing,...
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Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...history: Whitewashing and Cisplaining...the movie I began my transition in 1992. Part of what came with that was the meed for a hair stylist. I found mine at the Pink House in Conway, Arkansas. It was owned by John Schenck and Robert Lloyd, Their story is here at Freedom to Marry. John used to tell me stories from the old days. He was well positioned to do so since he...
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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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