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Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
Society, Politics & Law

Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?

...education. [Percentage of readers of various Welsh newspapers] Reader deficit One of the most striking findings of the survey is the low number of people reading a newspaper produced in Wales – 5% or fewer. The Western Mail carries the most comprehensive coverage of the assembly, but the survey revealed that fewer than 4% regularly read it; when asked to name their main...
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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...education: Provide training and education to employees and leadership about TI practice. This will help everyone understand its importance and how to apply it in their roles both from an externally and internally facing perspective. Assessment and planning: Conduct evaluations and assessments to identify areas where TI practice can improve. Develop a strategy to address...
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How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...technology is becoming less central. Unanswered questions For VW itself, apart from the massive loss of share value in recent days, its corporate social and environmental responsibility has taken a severe knock. Diesel cars represent a large proportion of new car sales in Europe and also of vehicles in use. Many of these will be Volkswagen Group vehicles bought by people...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...technology to investigate situations which were previously inaccessible. Beyond gaining access to the physically hard-to-reach, we can now address many situations that were previously too fleeting, long-term, intimate or dispersed to investigate. Thirdly, some methods simply did not exist before recent technological advances: big data and networked social media data are...
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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...technological revolution and geopolitical shifts. The old cycle of lower prices followed by higher prices can no longer be assumed to be applicable.” Stevens says the business model adopted by the IOCs has failed. They have to downsize, and many of their assets will have to be sold off. Above all, the corporate culture of these once-mighty conglomerates has to change....
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...technology [forges] an unlikely alliance with the sleeper against the masterful rationality of the sleep scientist”. Greaney further discusses the gendered dimensions of sleep. While his analysis of (masculine) insomnia and (feminine) narcolepsy as well as his reading of MacLeod’s novel via Cixous are quite conclusive, he might have drawn a parallel between critical...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...technology is continuously striding towards more efficient and practical machines, we are still miles away from a working lightsaber. Let’s see why. Transcript The first challenge is making the blade of your lightsaber an acceptable size, let’s say around three feet or so. To do this, you would have to make the laser beam come to a stop at a certain point. This...
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How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?
Money & Business

How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?

...technology itself), the number of Bitcoin transactions through the market, or even the energy consumed by Bitcoin miners (the computers that validate transactions and are rewarded with Bitcoins). Diverging from fundamentals If we take a close look, we can see how the price of Bitcoin may be diverging from these fundamentals. For instance, it is becoming less profitable to...
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