Category Archives: General

Our Town

Originally posted on Circles & Stalls:
Royal Exchange, Manchester. 19 September 2017. The Royal Exchange’s stage is crowded with people sitting around tables, chatting and waiting for something to start. Everyone is dressed as if they have just walked in…

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Fossilized Poo Reveals that Vegetarian Dinosaurs had a Taste for Crabs

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Dispelling the Myth of Rio’s Favelas: Chapéu Mangueira

Originally posted on Lost Tribe:
Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are continuously given a hard time in the media. If we play a game of word association, for many the word ‘favela’ is synonymous with ‘violence’, ‘gangs’, and the most prevalent…

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Sept 22nd 2017: Brazil’s Prison Industrial Complex

Originally posted on Latino Media Collective:
What is it like to live in Brazil’s prison system? Brazilian freelance journalist Fernanda Canofre explains to the LMC the dangers of riots, torture, disease, corruption, and racial profiling. All without ever being charged…

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Tiger, Tiger

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More Than Pedestrian: The Magic of Walking

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Morag Rose, University of Sheffield Abandoned Buildings Project 2: Image (c) Jane Samuels, used with permission Public Health England has launched a new campaign “Active 10” to encourage adults to go for a brisk…

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Junk Food is 21st Century Imperialism

Originally posted on Longreads:
From door-to-door deliveries to influencing politics, companies like Nestlé, PepsiCo, and McDonald’s spend big bucks to enmesh themselves in third world markets, and their processed, packaged foods bring obesity and health problems with them. In the first in a…

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Review of Duet by Glen Keane

Originally posted on Focuni:
It is no doubt that this animation is one of the best animations I have ever seen, this almost 4 minute animation captures the true capabilities of traditional animation and that’s not getting started on the…

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TEENS: Make a strawberry cocktail with a difference

Originally posted on Esther Lafferty's Inkwell:
Mammals, and most animals and plants, have two sets of chromosomes in every cell, one from their mum and one from their dad. A few types of birds and some insects, reptiles, amphibians,…

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Most Beautiful Villages Around The World – Dominic Bowkett

Originally posted on Dominic Bowkett:
Popeye Village, is a group of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings located at Anchor Bay in the north-west corner of the Mediterranean island of Malta. Village on the bank of the Niger river, Mali. Hidden…

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