Just right before midnight at the close of a sizzling summer months working day in 1916, a pure gas pocket exploded 120 toes beneath the waves of Lake Erie. It occurred for the duration of work on Cleveland’s newest waterworks tunnel, a 10-foot-vast underwater artery designed to pull in h2o […]
Month: February 2021
Microscopic Wrinkles in Leaves Ward Off Insects
Plants have advanced an spectacular assortment of strategies to ward off hungry, leaf-chomping insects. Properly-recognised defenses contain foul-tasting harmful toxins, sticky resins and sharp thorns, and now scientists have discovered however an additional instance: microscopic wrinkles that make leaves more durable to stroll on. Wrinkles form in many leaves’ cuticles—coatings […]
Expert Opinion Can’t Be Trusted if You Consult the Wrong Sort of Expert
“Experts are often having it wrong” is now a acquainted trope. As a historian of science, I disagree: I think heritage exhibits that scientific industry experts generally get matters ideal. But examples in which industry experts have long gone improper give the option to improved have an understanding of the […]
Lecture capture, social topology, and the spatial and temporal arrangements of UK universities
Introduction This article explores how lecture capture technologies and practices are reconfiguring the spaces and times of higher education. Building on work where we investigated the social topologies of online students (Bayne et al., 2013), and assemblages of nearness (Ross et al., 2013), we began the work discussed here by […]
Options for developing European strategies on citizenship education
Intergovernmental approaches to citizenship education in Europe This section describes the CoE’s and the EU’s current approaches towards policymaking on citizenship education. Both organisations use a characteristic set of policy tools based on their organisational structures and the resources at their disposal. For the purpose of analysis, the distinction between […]
The vocational route to higher education in Finland: Students’ backgrounds, choices and study experiences
Introduction In Finland, as in other European countries, a widely shared discourse is that access to higher education (HE) should be open and fair regardless of one’s social background. The need to widen access policies has been recognized as part of the European policy agenda, and strong emphasis has been […]
Patterns of actorship in legitimation of educational changes: The role of transnational and local knowledge
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Government and Private Sector Should Produce Net Electricity in Fusion Pilot Plant by 2035-2040 to Impact the Transition to a Low-Carbon Emission Electrical System, New Report Says
The U.S. Division of Strength (DOE) and personal business need to invest now in get to have an operational fusion pilot plant in the 2035-2040 time frame, claims Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication.
New Rapid Expert Consultation Offers Strategies for Navigating Disaster Response, Evacuation, and Sheltering Complicated by COVID-19
A new rapid skilled consultation from the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for unexpected emergency planners and determination-makers to take into account as they update their disaster strategies for evacuation, sheltering, and mass treatment amid COVID-19.
Meeting the Urgent Needs of People Living with Dementia Requires Addressing Existing Disparities in Care, and Ensuring Future Research Prioritizes Inclusivity and Real-World Studies
The present-day body of evidence on dementia care does not mirror the activities of numerous populations, together with folks of different races, ethnicities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and capabilities, suggests a new report from the Countrywide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Reducing the Disposal of Unused, Expensive Injectable Medications Requires Changes in the Way the U.S. Produces, Administers, and Pays for Drugs
Every yr, important amounts of drugs remaining more than and unused from solitary-dose vials are discarded, but for the reason that of the way medicine are priced and compensated for in the United States, the value of the discarded volume are unable to be recouped, says a new congressionally mandated […]