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Music for today ·Since 19 October, Civil Service facilitators have offered walk-in help across the five districts, covering public services, email and online safety.
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Launched on Bandwagon-5 on 20 October, they will test commercial networks: the launch is complete, while communications trials are still ahead.
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The DIGITAfrica school ran in Senegal from 12 to 15 October, offering four days of practical work to participants from seven institutions.
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The renewed partnership with Motorola and Lenovo Foundation will support national plans and community participation; funding is distinct from outcomes already achieved.
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Presented on 15 October, the project combines monitoring and digital infrastructure: better knowledge is a step forward, not proof that biodiversity has recovered.
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Announced on 15 October, the tool compares conditions, needs and expected benefits: it supports decisions, rather than representing irrigation works already built.
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The presentation is planned for 22 October at 10 am. The city has named the group of operators that won the tender.
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Defra’s call covers the Amazon, Congo Basin and Coral Triangle, bringing markets, rules and human behaviour into the investigation.
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Design · Philosophy · Plants · Curiosities · Words · Food · Cultures & peoples. Ideas worth a closer look.
In shared shelters, paper tubes and curtains show that design also means deciding where another person’s view can stop.
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In an essay from 1797, Godwin shifts attention from accumulated facts to the activities that keep a mind at work.
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The velvety rosette of Streptocarpus ionanthus invites us to notice a surprising possibility: growing new plantlets from a leaf cutting.
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A pencil stays straight but looks broken in water: a familiar detail reveals how seeing also involves reconstructing light’s path.
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The Italian word for a device that helps us look closely preserves a seed’s memory through a resemblance in shape.
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An egg white becoming firm reveals a change in its proteins: heat builds a structure, rather than simply drying everything out.
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A printing and dyeing tradition protects parts of cloth before indigo is applied: its pattern emerges from areas left light.
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Enlarge the chart Wind can connect a desert to a forest. From CALIPSO observations for 2007–2013, the studies estimate about 182 million tonnes of dust a year passing the western coast of North Africa and 27.7 million deposited in the Amazon basin. The second flow is part of the first: do not add the bars together. [1][2][3]
These are historical estimated averages, with large uncertainties: the Amazon study gives a range of around 8–48 million tonnes per year. Dust also carries phosphorus, a nutrient; these figures do not show that the forest is protected against present pressures. [3]
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