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National Science and Engineering Week will run from the 12th to the 21st March. This year’s theme is ‘Earth’ in support of International Year of Biodiversity
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Heated debate on geoengineering solutions to climate change (Irish Times)
Geoengineering divides ...
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The incredibly powerful earthquake which struck Chile on February 27th may have been the fifth largest since records began, but it has also had a surprising effect on the length of an Earth day!
At magnitude 8.8, the quake was ...
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Whilst the foodies among us dream of World Pi(e) Day, those of more mathematical leaning will of course be aware that this coming Sunday, March 14, is World Pi Day (03.14). To celebrate the event, a mathematician has teamed up with ...
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Over the weekend the Iraqi people have been voting.
Barack Obama hailed it as a milestone for democracy in the area
Here are some sites where you can discover more about the background to the elections, any associated violence and ...
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Undergraduates in the sciences need a level of mathematical ability that few possess when they first enter higher education. Consequently, curricula are designed with this in mind and maths support is invariably provided for all. This presents challenges for staff ...
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Findings from a panel of more than 40 international experts have brought them to conclude that a massive asteroid impact did indeed spell the end for the dinosaurs, according to a newly-published report in Science journal. Whilst this theory has ...
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Over the past few months, we have received a lot of feedback asking us about the future of the Virtual Training Suite (VTS).
We are pleased to be able tell you that we now have some good news about future ...
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In a new 5 part series for the BBC, Manchester University’s Professor Brian Cox will be examining a range of Solar system phenomena. Cox will be travelling to a number of locations around Earth to compare sights found on our ...
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Here is the latest round up from Intute and the LSE Library
Aiming High for Young People: Engaging through social media guidance from the Department for Children, Schools and Families how youth workers can use social media to engage with ...
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Since we posted the news about the JISC funding cuts for Intute, many of you have been in touch with us to ask about the future of Informs.
We are pleased to tell you that we now have some good ...
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Scientists examining Antarctic ice cores have determined that the explosion of a huge extraterrestrial rock occurred over the continent almost half a million years ago.
Presenting at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas, a group including Imperial ...
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Three new hot topic articles have been published on Intute.
Tubes in space
Carbon nanotubes form in space but use a metal-free chemistry until now unavailable to chemists on Earth. The discovery is a surprising outcome of laboratory experiments designed ...
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This week voting will take place in the presidential elections in Togo.
Intute has chosen some useful starting points to find out more
The BBC has a basic summary of the issue and list of candidates. The page also includes ...
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There is now an official autism strategy for England, following the new Autism Act, the first ever strategy of its kind in this country. It sets out key recommendations for central government and local authorities. These mainly affect adults, who ...
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The BBC has announced that it plans to make dramatic cuts to its services in order to reinvest savings in more original and distinctive content – “to make fewer things better”, in the words of Director General Mark Thompson.
Proposed ...
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25 years ago today the National Union of Mineworkers announced that it was calling off the 1984-1985 coal miner’s strike.
The nearly year long strike became the totemic struggle of the Thatcher years, polarising a country with lasting and often ...
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Look out for this conference to be held at Bath University from 29-30 April 2010. The UACES Student Forum are hosting their annual conference in Bath. It’s a friendly event, and hopes to provide a good environment for postgraduate students ...
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When is an engineer not an engineer? (Telegraph)
“Britain suffers from a language problem in that the word ‘engineer’ is applied to a lot of different people who do a range of jobs,” said Dick Olver, chaiman of defence company ...
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Personas asks the question – how does the Internet see you?
Try the Personas search, see it build up a categorisation of how the Internet sees you on the fly and see how that matches your reality.
Personas is a ...
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Hot on the heels of the shocking earthquake which has caused widespread death and destruction in Haiti, the past weekend saw two more enormous earthquakes bringing more suffering around the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
Much media attention has focused on ...
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This workshop is organised jointly by the UK Physical Sciences Centre and the Institute of Physics (IOP) Higher Education Group (HEG). Developing professional and employability skills in all levels of students is becoming increasingly important. Historically Physics Departments have produced ...
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Here is the latest round up of key new UK government publications online from Intute and the LSE Library
Reporting Contingent liabilities to Parliament. HC 181 Treasury select committee
English Housing Survey: Headline report 2008-09
Pathways to Work: The experiences ...
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This week Gordon Brown apologised for UK government support of child migration schemes. Find out why he might have done this and the response of the agencies by following these links recommended by Intute
Barnardos has some facts about its ...
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Enquiry and problem-based learning approaches to teaching and learning are becoming increasingly popular across HE. There have been several successful implementations in the physical sciences. The barriers to implementation may be generic or subject specific.
The focus of this workshop ...
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PROPOSALS DUE: 19 April 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, London, are co-organizing a major retrospective of foremost Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. James Rondeau, Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator and Chair, Department of Contemporary Art, The Art ...
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Last week saw the launch of the latest Pew Internet and American Life report. Based on a survey of nearly 900 users it considers questions such as will the Internet enhance writing skills, will there be more control over access ...
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I am pleased to pass on details of the call for papers of the excellent DRHA conference. Some of our colleagues at Intute are on the committee of DRHA. In the past we have also presented and run panels, (see ...
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The controversial Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland is set to be switched back on this week after a short break. Immediately prior to Christmas, the Collider attained the highest particle energies ...
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The Web Behaviour Test aims to find out what sort of web animal you are by surveying your web habits, as well as, testing your Internet searching and multi-tasking skills.
It is split into three main parts:
A survey of ...
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An innovative approach to teaching engineering design...
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Here is this week’s round up from the LSE Library and Intute
Housing Affordability: A fuller picture This document sets out three new affordability indicators to show the ability to access home ownership and the affordability of maintaining a mortgage ...
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This week Operation Moshtarak began a major offensive in Afghanistan. find out more using these recommended resources from Intute.
The BBC has a guide to the aims of the offensive. Its section on Afghanistan also contains data on troop fatalities ...
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Intute has been contacted by the Oxford University Press to publicise an essay competition. For exhibitions and conference announcements we would normally add the details to our conference and events database. However we are happy to circulate details of academic ...
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured a dramatic and inspiring image of the approaching shuttle Endeavour, as it prepared to dock with the ISS on Feb 9.
Endeavour Shuttle Approaches ISS
NASA has released a whole series of images ...
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India refinery ‘threatens health of local community’ (BBC)
Vedanta, Avatar And The Tribal Activists (Wall St Journal)
Amnesty report slams alumina mine run by Vedanta subsidiary in India (Guardian)
“An alumina refinery in east India run by a UK-based firm ...
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According to a new report in “Nature Genetics”, the level of acidity in the oceans has climbed by a more significant amount than at any point in the past 55 million years.
The rising levels of carbon dioxide in the ...
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This workshop will consider ways in which technology can help with the effective use of feedback from assessments. Examples will be given of how feedback can be provided in a prompt, relevant and understandable manner, and how students can be ...
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In recognition of the Chinese Year of the Tiger which began on 14th February, the BBC has launched a collection of videos celebrating the beauty and majesty of the tiger, the largest of the big cats, whilst drawing attention to its ...
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Here is the latest update from Intute and the LSE Library
Strengthening Local Democracy Focus Group Study
The role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change. HC 290 Environmental Audit Committee.
Green Light? A review of regulatory barriers to ...
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This one-day workshop is offered by the STEM Group of Subject Centres and is aimed at academic staff who have either recently been appointed, or who aspire to become appointed, as external examiners.
The event is offered as a practical, ...
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Thursday afternoon will hopefully see the delayed launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA’s latest mission to investigate the effects of solar variability and its effects on our own planet. The mission has two key objectives:
To determine more about ...
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Scietists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new atomic clock which is reportedly so accurate that should it still be around in 3.7 BILLION years, it won’t have lost (or gained) a second!
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Infinity sounds simple but is it? What does it mean to have an infinite universe? And infinitely many infinities?
Found out more on BBC2 tonight when Horizon at 9 p.m. will be examining the concept of infinity....
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BBSRC Bleating bluetongue
The UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK’s leading funding agency for academic research and training in the non-clinical life sciences.
BBSRC-funded research across the biosciences (around £450 million) has an impact on ...
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A recent study by the Influential Pew Internet and American Life Project found that Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show are enthusiastic about it.
At the same time a survey of ...
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BE delighted as BT prepares to share its broadband infrastructure (Broadband Genie)
BT opens up its ducts to broadband fibre rivals (Telegraph)
‘All broadband suppliers will be allowed to lay their own fibre cables in BT’s tunnels, the company has ...
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A new study of Arctic sea ice, carried out as part of the International Polar Year, suggests that at the current pace of change, there may be no sea ice whatsoever during sumemrtime in that region by 2030 at the ...
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BMAF (Business, Management and Accountancy Network) is off to Newcastle this Spring, to hold its annual conference. 20-21 April at the Newcastle Marriott Hotel in Gosforth. The theme is Assessment. BMAF is a brilliant organisation which supports business and management ...
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The final scheduled night launch of one of NASA’s space shuttles, Endeavour, was successfully completed at 4.14am EST today. The shuttle is carrying the final two main pieces of the International Space Station, which will finally be completed after almost 12 ...
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Laura Chinchilla now seems set to be first woman president of Costa Rica.
Here are some resources on the election as chosen by Intute staff
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones Costa Rica has official results by district, as well as background ...
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Nominations are now open for the British Science Association Award Lectures 2010.
Five outstanding young communicators will be given the opportunity to present a prestigious Award Lecture at the British Science Festival. This year’s Festival will be held in Birmingham ...
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It may seem strange but some Americans are asking for their politics to be a little more like ours.
This does not mean that they want their own expenses scandals with Americanised versions of moats and duck houses paid for ...
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NASA has extended the Cassini mission for a second time, with the exploration of the Saturn system now set to continue until 2017. Having arrived at Saturn in 2004, the Cassini craft was initially due to spend 4 years exploring ...
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Material World, BBC Radio 4’s weekly science show, is searching for the BBC’s Amateur Scientist of the Year.
The “So You Want to be a Scientist?” competition asks entrants to submit ideas for scientific experiments that they would like to ...
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New imagery released by NASA from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that Pluto is undergoing significant seasonal changes. Once considered a member of the Solar System’s 9 planets, Pluto has since been downgraded to a “dwarf planet”, yet its study ...
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3 new stories have been added to the Intute hot topics service; these articles are written exclusively for Intute by David Bradley Science Writer.
This month’s features include:
Golden Cat [www.intute.ac.uk] This feature looks at the use of a ...
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Latest report on MPs expenses from Sir Thomas Legg
London Assembly transport reports. Streets ahead: Relieving congestion on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street
The Cabinet Office and the Centre of Government Lords Constitution Committee HL 30
Home Office: ...
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Today saw the publication of the latest report by by Sir Thomas Legg
who recommended that 390 MPs, more than half the current and past MPs reviewed, should repay £1.3m.
You can read the full text of the report Review ...
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Worryingly accurate....
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It’s a feeling many of us experience when Christmas ends and January arrives – after the excitement of New Year, a familiar pattern of mild depression sets in. This has long been known as “January Blues”, or in more pronounced ...
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Two new TV programmes on the role of the Internet in our lives have started on either side of the Atlantic.
The Virtual Revolution is a four part BBC series presented by Dr. Aleks Krotoski.
It will look at how ...
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Barack Obama today unveils sweeping changes to the structure of the US space programme. Perhaps the most dramatic of these is that the anticipated manned missions to the Moon, scheduled for the end of the decade, will no longer go ...
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Fear the boom and bust is the first video from the new EconStories.tv website
In the video, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an ...
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Breakthrough heart scanner will allow earlier diagnosis (University of Leeds)
Innovative scanner to speed up diagnosis of heart problems (The Hindu)
Leeds: Advance in diagnosing heart trouble (Yorkshire Evening Post)
“Large scale magnetometers have been used for some time for ...
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This week Sri Lankans have been voting in the presidential elections. Here are some suggested sites from Intute
A good starting point is the IFES introductory guide
The official elections department has information on preparations, results and legislation.
A number ...
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Here is the latest weekly round up from Intute and the LSE Library
An Anatomy of Economic Inequaltiy in th UK: Report of the National Equality Panel
Ofsted: Citizenship established? Citizenship in schools 2006-09
Impact Assessment: European Parliament and Council ...
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CitizenTube has a film version of President Obama’s state of the Union speech. They are inviting citizens to submit videos of questions which the president will then answer.
See the materials online
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In celebration of Andy Murray’s historic victory at the Australian Open today, which makes him the first British man to reach two Grand Slam tennis finals in 70 years, Intute takes a look at the science behind the sport.
There ...
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According to the latest findings from the British Social Attitudes survey
The number of people who feel they have a civic duty to vote has fallen sharply. Just over a half of people (56%) believe everyone has a “duty” to ...
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2010 registration has now opened for scientists and school classes who wish to participate in “I’m a scientist, get me out of here“.
“I’m a scientist” is an online event for secondary science students, which is FREE for schools. It ...
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That’s the question I have been asking some of ‘my’ students lately, in my other job in a certain university library. I haven’t run a proper survey, but just asked for shows of hands or verbal feedback from students of ...
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This post is about some BBC TV programs that at the present time can only be watched if you are in the UK. I do not keep track of what is on telly in this blog, and whilst I have the highest ...
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It is since Darwin published his monograph entitled On the Origins of Species in 1859 that modern society has troubles in relating with hominins. There are several different species that are known to science nowadays, but the old divide of ...
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Keen readers will note that one of my previous blog posts concerned a musical video created by students at UC Berkeley to pass on the message of laboratory safety in a novel way – read my Sing a Song of ...
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Here is the latest round up of new UK government publications this week 15-22nd January 2010. from Intute and the LSE Library
Legislative Scrutiny: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill; Video Recordings Bill Joint Committee on Human Rights HL 33/HC 249
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The mission of i-Society 2010 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the ...
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The WorldCIS-2011 is an international forum dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of security on the Internet and Computer Networks. The WorldCIS-2011 invites speakers and researchers to submit papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and ...
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The World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2011) is a multidisciplinary congress, bridging efforts across the natural, social and engineering sciences, the environment and development of communities. The congress covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to sustainability, which includes ...
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The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010) an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution.
All the accepted ...
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According to a report in Nature Physics, a UK-based team of physicists has achieved the quite stunning task of tying light into knots! According to “knot theory”, a branch of mathematics, it has always been theoretically possible to use “optical ...
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Are you fed up with January? Need some inspiration? Why not look at these European Studies events which are coming up?
Do you want to explore the mysteries of the European Union, combined with some great eating out? TEAM, the ...
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UK construction companies to join Haiti effort (Financial Times)
Full RedR Haiti mission to cost £200,000 (New Civil Engineer)
RedR appeal for Haiti
RedR sends skilled volunteers such as engineers into areas affected by natural disasters. It also provides training ...
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It is a year since Barack Obama became president of the USA – are you disappointed by what he has done?
At the outset a BBC world service poll showed high levels of optimism worldwide.
This week the Brookings Institution ...
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As the coldest and remotest place on the planet, Antarctica has long held a fascination for explorers throughout recorded history. Many of the more recent expeditions to the South Pole and the continent have taken place at this time of ...
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The latest series in the BBC’s extraordinary catalogue of programmes about planet Earth begins tonight. Scottish geologist Iain Stewart – who also fronted Earth: The Power of the Planet, and a recent documentary on our changing climate – is back ...
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Now it is Spain’s turn to take on the presidency of the EU, for the next six months. Read all about it on their official website. They also have a Twitter channel called Desdemoncloa, which is actually the government Twitter ...
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This is the title of a conference to be held at the Park Crescent Conference Centre, 229 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN on Friday 26 February, 0930-1630. It’s being organised by FIBS - Frontiers in Information for Bio- and environmental Sciences ...
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Here is the latest update from Intute in association with the LSE Library
Post-16 Educational Choices in Rural Areas
Educational Attainment in Rural Areas
Speakers Conference on parliamentary representation HC 239
Social Enterprises Working with Prisons and Probation Services research ...
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This week Google announced that it may withdraw from China.
You can follow the story on the BBC news website which also has user comment from China on its World Service section.
On the theme of Internet censorship in China ...
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Revolutionary ‘light emitting wallpaper’ could start to replace light bulbs in 2012
Carbon Trust backs light-emitting wallpaper (Energy Efficiency News)
Carbon-cutting wallpaper could be ready by 2012 (Independent)
“A company developing ultra-efficient organic LED (OLED) lighting technology has been awarded ...
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A rare opportunity for students of Indian archaeology has just come to my attention: Harappa.com is organising an “Ask the Expert” event. A panel of experts including Asko Parapola, Iravatham Mahadevan, Richard Meadow, Shereen Ratnagar, Rita Wright and others will answer many of ...
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Tiny geolocators provided by the British Antactic Survey (BAS) have enabled a team of scientists from the US, Britain, Greenland and Iceland to plot in detail the course of Arctic Terns (picture courtesy of the BBC) during their epic migration from pole ...
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Here’s a roundup of some new or interesting Web materials about Business, for 2010.
A nice site for Business students is Business Zone. It’s supposed to be for people working in small businesses, but it has some interesting news items ...
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Ofqual – the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator – has issued advice to students, parents and teachers on citing information sources appropriately to avoid plagiarism.
Produced in association with PlagiarismAdvice.org this series of guides is aimed at those ...
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Three new articles by science writer David Bradley have been posted over on our Hot Topics page.
They cover a new study into defects in zeolite catalysts, the identification of a toxic chlorination by-product in tap water, and evidence for ...
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Amidst the snow-related chaos that’s been plaguing the UK since mid-December, spare a thought for the Peruvian village of Ranrahirca. On this day in 1962, a massive landslide on the slopes of the extinct volcano Huascaran buried the village under ...
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In January 2010 the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) published the Feline Life Stage Guidelines, available in full-text here.
These guidelines provide an evidence-based life stage “wellness program” that aim to assist the veterinary ...
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Ukraine’s next presidential election (first round) is scheduled to be held on January 17, 2010
Intute has some selected links where you can see the events unfolding
Find an overview of the dates and data from past elections on the ...
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This is this weeks round up of new UK government publications online from Intute and the LSE Library
New Year Honours List 2010
Home Office Research Report 28: Improving public confidence in the police – A review of the evidence
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has sent back images indicating the presence of lakes on the surface of Mars several billion years ago. According to experts, this may change the perceived view of Martian history, as the timescales involved suggest ...
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