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Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?

...care to measure, would indeed happen more slowly when moving rapidly, as viewed from a stationary view point. [Save the Clock tower leaflet, Back to the Future] Special relativistic time dilation has been measured many times in laboratory experiments, and the results agree precisely with Einstein’s predictions. One such example concerns the subatomic particles known as...
Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...care for jurors. How can we tackle juror trauma? The question of supporting jurors to cope with the distressing nature of jury duty is not simple and significant changes and improvements to services are likely to take time. However, strategies can focus on three broad domains; pre-trial, concurrent to the case, and post-trial. Support within trials could take the format...
Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...care and a safe place. To find out more about Pikpa, to volunteer or make a donation click here. You can download a digital version of the book at this link, a full spread PDF version here, or a single-page PDF version, click here. All the images have no copyright restrictions, only an acknowledgement to the photographer Knut Bry and ’NODE Berlin Oslo’ (i.e....
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...care of the family. While some things have clearly changed, there is still an assumption that to be successful and climb the career ladder, the ideal academic will be full time, have no career breaks and be able to move institution or country as research opportunities arise. In fact, what is more astonishing is how well many women have done despite the constraints of a...
Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?
History & The Arts

Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?

...careful in our relations with all life. Perhaps this recognition of living in an edgy world lurks behind the dressing up in costumes (even ones with devilish horns and a tail) and pretending to be spooky. So, Halloween has nothing to do with devil worship and everything to do with having fun while honouring our deceased loved-ones and remembering that the world is a...
How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...caring for children may be an obstacle to migrant women accessing the labour market and building economic capital. Nonetheless, over time, through the life course, some migrants may be able to build networks around their children’s school which may foster greater knowledge and understanding of the destination society. These interactions can help them enhance their...
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...care for children and young people, such as children’s centres and childminding, along with education and skills providers for learners of all ages. Pulled in many directions During Wilshaw’s tenure at the head of Ofsted he has been the subject of intense media scrutiny. He began the role in January 2012, appointed with optimistic zeal by then secretary of state for...
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...careful attentions of the reader”. Dawson reflects on Dickens’s success as a serial publisher and novelist, but he might have enriched his comments by bringing either Robert Patten’s “Publishing in Parts” or David Vincent’s “Dickens’s Reading Public” into the discussion (see Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies 2006). Patten examines the cultural...