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Posted by: admin on Monday, May 03, 2010 - 03:30 PM
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SHORT COURSE:
This is a course for people who are experts in their field, like professors, lecturers, postgraduates, researchers, NGO staff, hospital staff and civil servants. Some will be very well qualified academically, but we are also open to people with few qualifications but real technical expertise. Each course will have a mixture of experts in different fields, so the other delegates in the workshop will already be your general audience.This course will teach you how to write clearly, but not to dumb down. We want to hold onto ambiguity, contradiction and complexity. Audiences and movements need to understand these, or they will end up even more confused. So we want to explain the complexity in simple ways. In essence, the principle is ‘the harder the ideas, the shorter the words’.
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Read full article: 'WRITING ABOUT SCIENCE, CLIMATE AND ECONOMICS FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE' (1304 bytes more)  
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Posted by: Malcolm Povey on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 04:54 PM
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What did Karl Marx contribute to our understanding of our environment?
The answer, suggests this pamphlet, is a great deal despite being largely overlooked. Marx condemned capitalism not just for its exploitation of men and women but for producing a dangerous 'metabolic rift' between humans and nature.
Marx's approach offers vital insights to all those who believe tinkering with the present set-up of society won't stave of the treat of devestating climate change.
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Read full article: 'Marxism And Ecology: Capitalism, Socialism & The Future Of The Planet' (151 bytes more)
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Posted by: Malcolm Povey on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:49 AM
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Minutes of First Meeting of Green Jobs Commission, 13 June 2009
Present: Sian Jones (CCC-tu group, chair), Chris Baugh (PCS), Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford Uni), Manuel Cortes (TSSA), Tim Baster (COIN), Jonathan Neale (CCC), Phil Thornhill (CCC), Fergus Nicol (London Met), Derek Wall (Goldsmiths), Tony Kearns (CWU), Sean Geoghegan (RMT), Gareth Dale (Brunel Uni and CCC-tu; taking minutes).
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Read full article: 'Green Jobs Commission, 13 June 2009' (7435 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Friday, January 16, 2009 - 07:55 PM
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As scientists and members of universities, we express our utmost concern and condemnation of the current Israeli attacks in Gaza strip. This is a clear violation of international law, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention "relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" (1949).
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Read full article: 'Academics for Gaza' (911 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 12:05 PM
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23% of all R&D in the UK by expenditure was carried out in the Higher Education Sector in 2002; there is every reason to think that this proportion is increasing. The HE sector has a high concentration of scientists, either members of the UCU or potential members of the UCU and the UCU represents scientists in Medical Research Council institutes. Science is a core activity in Higher Education. Science is central to our society and is a matter of daily debate and interest. An understanding of the role of science in Higher Education is obviously important to the UCU and hence the Education Committee of the UCU has commissioned this work.
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Read full article: 'SCIENCE AND THE UCU' (34184 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 12:04 PM
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Israel's mass slaughter and devastation of Gaza shows its barbarity has no limits. 550 Palestinians are dead and 2.500 injured. Half of Gaza's one and a half million Palestinians are children. Dozens have been killed or injured. United Nations representatives in Gaza say the horror unleashed by Israel is "inhuman" and the people are "trapped, traumatised and terrorised". This is what happens when the fourth most powerful military in the world unleashes its arsenal of terror on a defenceless people trapped in the most densely populated area in the world.
Across the world there have been demonstrations of anger and outrage at the inaction of governments in making Israel stop the carnage now.
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Read full article: 'Opposition to Israel's Limitless Barbarity Grows' (294 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 07:42 PM
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The UK Government has provoked a funding crisis in fundamental science, despite pumping a lot more money into science as a whole. Astronomy and Physics have been the worst hit with the announcement that the famous Jodrell Bank radio telescope will be closed together with a 10% cut in overall funding for university physics departments. Astronomy and particle physics funding faces an £80 million shortfall in cash from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) over the next three years. The Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees says, “The funding of the physical sciences is at a precarious state."
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Read full article: 'Stop the cuts in Physics and Astronomy' (3395 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Monday, March 10, 2008 - 03:43 PM
ScientistsVsWar
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Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Don’t attack Iran
End the siege of Gaza
"I really hope that on 15 March people will join the demonstration in Trafalgar Square at 12. To march against the war and march against the continued occupation which has come from this war. It had a rotten basis and nothing good will come of it."
Nick Broomfield, Documentary film maker
for more details go to www.stopwar.org.uk
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