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 […]
Day: February 28, 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 […]