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How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...de Oliveira Andrade...[Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Brazil.] Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas Ultrafine aerosol particles found in polluted urban air can contribute to more intense storms in the Amazon rainforest, with potential knock-on...
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Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)
Education & Development

Bringing up problems at work (without making things worse)

...De Felice and Garretson (2021) define a workplace problem as ‘a state of affairs that affects one or more people negatively, and which requires some type of action’. In other words, it is something that can plausibly be solved, as opposed to a general complaint about a state of affairs. For example: For example: ‘This rain is so annoying!’ = a complaint, as there...
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Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru
History & The Arts

Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru

...De Cymru, honnir mai i'w chwareli llechi y gall baswyr taranol gogledd Cymru ddiolch am eu cyseiniant cymaradwy. Mae'r cyhoedd, yn gywir ddigon, yn cysylltu'r côr meibion yng Nghymru a hanes diwydiannol Cymru. Gellir olrhain ei darddiad i ganol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Ymhen fawr o dro, sicrhaodd ensembles a oedd yn cynnwys dynion yn unig, a ddechreuodd fel cangen...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...de-centring politic, less concerned with a replication of its own ‘centres’” (p. 3). However, I remain somewhat undecided about the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...education and training for jurors. Providing jurors with information about rape myths, their impact, and how to recognize and address them can help to reduce their influence on the decision-making process (Pang, Davies and Lui, 2022). It is also important to ensure that judges and lawyers are aware of the impact of rape myths on jurors and the need to challenge and...
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Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...Education on the Move in 2019: Academics and Artists working together to understand migration, participation, citizenship and Belonging...The 2019 ‘Who Are We?’ project took place for the third year at the Tate Modern and brought together academics and artists to explore migration, participation, citizenship and belonging through installations, symposia, and...
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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...education would be out of work if it didn't! From my own experience I can say without hesitation that understanding how music works, learning how it's put together, can indeed enrich the listening experience and make one fully appreciate the finer details of what makes music 'tick'. I'm going to look at different ways of encouraging you to develop your powers of musical...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...education that emerged, about the latest initiative and improvement to the system; other times the films’ content was ‘unofficial’, agitational propaganda against the current order. Taking all these users together, a number of common threads emerge as to how and why they used film - what might be defined as the personal/psychological, the social/cultural and the...
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