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Don’t let your protest let off steam, or alleviate your guilt: Translate solidarity into policy — into education

5 minutes

Clearing through my old university things, I found a 100-page political zine recounting some of the responses to the murder of Michael Brown. Brown was a black teenager from Missouri who was shot six times […]

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Don’t clap for our NHS, Vote for It

admin 18 May No Comments

5 minutes

More and more, commentators are delicately questioning the method and/or madness behind our weekly ritual—the Clap (no, not that clap). Why do we clap for the NHS? What can previous love-ins teach us about bringing […]

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‘Every day we see plastic’ — The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Is it real?

admin 6 March No Comments

7 minutes

The Pacific Garbage Patch, or simply the Patch, is, by now, a household name, the climate bogeyman, a beast of biblical proportions — like an ark, but built (or so you think) from bottles and […]

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