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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...determining the way forward for the community. The website for the centre states, “Nothing that happens at Kapululangu can happen without the Elders.” Kapululangu’s Elders were born in the desert, and grew up and were trained in the Old Ways before the arrival of Kartiya/non-Indigenous people in their ancestral countries. This makes them custodians of an immense...
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How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...determine changes in vegetation, and in the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed in different areas of a small city in El Cerrado the commune Aguas de Santa Barbara. They confirmed that a policy banning human-caused fires between 1986 and 2015 encouraged the growth of denser forest. This led to an increase, by 1.2 tons, of the carbon stored in both vegetation and soil in...
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Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...and it’s difficult to find the right language, the right pace of urgency in which to respond. But at the same time I look at so many examples of innovation, imagination, determination, all the way across the planet, and for those reasons I see plenty of reasons why I think there’s a good chance that this is a problem we may well be able to fix. ...
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PodMag April 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag April 2016

...determined and what we can do to promote it. The book draws on scientific research from economics, psychology, philosophy and politics that looks at quality of life, wellbeing and happiness across the human life course. Dr Meg-John Barker Karen speaks to Meg-John Barker about Secrets of Enduring Love, how to make relationships last, and why the book is a good read for...
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Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...determine the evolution and stability of the AMOC during the extreme ‘greenhouse’ warmth of the early-middle Eocene. To reconstruct ocean circulation, geochemical and micropalaeontological techniques will be used to extract seawater signals recorded in fossil benthic foraminifera and fish teeth. The fossils preserved will be analysed for carbon isotopes to understand...
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How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?

...determined that people use rejection strategies to make their voting decisions in bad-option situations, we next wanted to test how rejection strategies would change the information people focus on. In nine separate studies we conducted, some of which will be published in an upcoming Journal of Consumer Research, we found that when people use rejection strategies, they...
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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...determined. She was fiercely clever and ambitious for the people around her and she wanted to achieve a better society for everyone. In that sense she was a real old fashioned politician who believed by being in politics she could have the greatest impact on the world. She was always on the side of the underdog and this was often played out in her contempt for authority...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...determine levels of contamination at different points during the manufacturing, assembly and testing of flight hardware (the parts that make up spacecraft or rovers that will explore other planets). Building the flight hardware for space missions is a complex scientific and engineering task. Spacecraft are made of many different components and pieces of equipment and from...
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