Category: Blog
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Endless War, Endless Profit: Stories from Africa and the Middle East
The tranquility of the savannah only shows itself in photos because in many parts of it are refugee camps in dire need of critical aid. War has taken root and it keeps happening that it is now part of daily life. A few miles away, in a local clinic, a boy with a gunshot wound…
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Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why
Etienne Farcot, University of Nottingham You probably don’t think about plant roots all that much – they’re hidden underground after all. Yet they’re continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your garden, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. Scientists discovered about 15 years ago that genes at the…
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Basi del Diablo Now At Pangil Beach Resort
Currimao’s Pangil Beach Resort was relaunched recently and the property now carries Basi del Diablo Wines. The wines only entered the picture in August after a wine tasting was done in the presence of the resort’s owner and his partners. “The wine tasting was quite the treat because we got to talk about the wines…
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I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art – here are three steps for trying it yourself
What do we learn about ourselves when we write creatively about an artwork? I asked myself this question during my creative writing PhD, where my focus was on writing a collection of poems in response to modern and contemporary art.
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Why Journalists Should Engage With Their Readers: A View from Slovakia
What happens when journalists join in the discussion in the often-frightening comments section below their articles? That’s one of the questions I sought to answer in my book, Discussing the News: the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public, published earlier this year.
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Friday Essay: A Lament for the Lost Art of Letter-Writing
Of all the eulogies at her funeral, the most arresting was a letter she’d written at 23, read aloud by a former housemate, Delia. Our friend had been travelling at the time; negotiating a fledgling relationship, digesting the reality of her diagnosis, preparing for the suddenly precarious unfolding of her life.
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ChatGPT: how to prevent it becoming a nightmare for professional writers
Nearly half of white-collar professionals have tried using ChatGPT to help with their work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 people at blue chips such as Google, JP Morgan and McKinsey. That’s staggering, considering the AI chatbot was only released to the public in November. It’s potentially very exciting for the future…
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Wilfred’s to Reopen Year-End
Wilfred’s, Salucop Group, Inc.’s retail shop will “likely” reopen at the beginning of the fourth quarter this year. The shop, according to its management, has been closed a month before the lockdown in March in anticipation of what was then referred to as a mystery virus from China. The retail store is still not open…
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SGI Workers To Get 13th Month Pay This March Amidst Coronavirus Threat
“We need to ride this out as a company and we also need to do the same thing as a nation,” Salucop says.
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Wilfred’s Thanks Customers for Bringing Eco Bags
Wilfred’s thanks its customers for bringing their eco bags whenever they visit the shop. The retail store has noticed this change in the past year, noting that “it is a welcome development”. While the specialty grocery store sells some products with plastic packaging, the brand does not want to add more to the 6.3 billion…
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