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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...data between 2016 and 2018, observing lower levels of physical activity of Adults (16+) in Asian adults of Muslim faith (40%) compared to those from ethnic backgrounds but no statistical analysis regarding Muslim women. In fact, a general search on the Internet reveals little in the way of any studies at all. How then I question, can Sport England ever hope to achieve...
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...data-limited estimations which were not always accurate e.g. on poverty assessment indices; presence of unassessed aspects of health e.g. non-communicable diseases and mental health; lack of integration/synergy of goals with other development activities e.g. on education, health and gender. In all, for the post 2015 agenda emphasis is made on the need for goal setting on...
Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

...data over many generations, illustrating the risk of certain interferences. Second, genetic diversity on the species level can be considered as its evolutionary potential. It contains the blue print on which selective pressures can act. It therefore functions as the insurance for long term survival of a species, which is exceptionally important in a changing environment....
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...data with Einstein’s predictions allowed us to test whether general relativity correctly describes such a collision – they passed with flying colours. The black-hole collision The merger occurred more than one billion light years from Earth, converting three times the mass of the sun into gravitational wave energy. In a fraction of a second, the power radiated through...
What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
Society, Politics & Law

What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?

...data proving the opposite. In fact, the poverty rate in the US remained mostly consistent from 1966 to 2014, fluctuating from 15% to 11% (US Census, Table 2). [Toilet paper delivery in Vietnam] Delivering toilet paper in Vietnam There are plenty of reasons why this is the case, some of which can be the direct result of policies and societal factors that keep people in a...
Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...data analytics’ in citizenship studies. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Mark Gaved and Andrew Brasher explored the use of technology (specifically, smartphone applications) in citizenship research, and the ethical and methodological issues raised by such technologies. The rich variety of methodological approaches to citizenship explored in the day school was complemented by...
Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...data) could be used. The figures might not always be easy to generate or perfectly accurate to measure, but these are calculated and accepted as a way of approaching the debate. Many people would challenge the idea that everything can easily be put in to economic terms. Surely there are elements of the environment that can’t have an economic-related measure? How do we...
Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
Science, Maths & Technology

Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet

...data suggested a planet-sized body was perturbing the orbit of Neptune. This, he felt, was it – and the world agreed. Pluto’s mass was at first thought to be roughly the same as the Earth’s, but by 1948 estimates had shrunk it to the size of Mars. When Pluto’s largest moon Charon was discovered in 1978, Charon’s orbit showed that Pluto’s mass is actually about...