Drones in the Cumbria skies: the floods of Christmas
Christmas 2015 will not be remembered as a white Christmas, but as a wet one. The media was full of images of the homes ruined by floods, particularly in Cumbria, as a result of winter ...
LSCM Christmas Dinner and Happy New Year to All
Happy New Year to everyone! :-) I hope you all have had a lovely Christmas holiday with loved ones. It is now officially 2016 :-D Oh Yeah! Fresh start! Have you set your New Year's ...
Entrepreneurship and making water from waste: Bottles for Growth and the Social Venture Challenge
Cranfield University’s Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship recently organised the University’s first Social Venture Challenge, a start-up weekend aimed at encouraging students to 'think like entrepreneurs' about ways to solve complex social and environmental issues to ...
#DammitJanet: who was behind the cyber attack on JANET (the Joint Academic Network) and how did they do it? And are we facing the age of the zombie fridges?
Last week, the Janet IT network that supports the UK research and education community came under a targeted and sustained DDoS attack that took days to fend off. Universities are commonly targets for phishing attacks, ...
After COP21, could a sunshield for the Earth prevent further global warming and climate change?
The COP21 climate talks in Paris set challenging targets to try and curb global warming by keeping the global temperature rise to 'well below' 2°C. Why does this matter? One of climate scientists’ fears is ...
Why we need business to boom after COP21
Business has long been considered to have a problematic relationship with the environment. Since the industrial revolution, the side effect of growing business has been a growing impact on the environment around us. As the ...
Airport design: should they be dull and technical or fun and enjoyable?
Airports are in transition, in a shift from the passenger process of getting passengers on and off planes, to passenger service: providing a user-friendly, comfortable travel experience. Occasionally airports are mistakenly called shopping malls, but even the ...
How can we reduce flooding in places like Carlisle?
In the past week, rainfall in Cumbria has caused flooding of homes, wreaked havoc on the transport network, and resulted in one death. It certainly seems that these ‘unprecedented’ weather events are becoming more common, ...
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Think how embarrassed you would feel if you cited a paper that had been retracted! A retraction means that the publisher has withdrawn the paper. I helped a student recently who had found an article ...
Moving toward the End of 1st Term
Hi everyone, it’s nice talking to you all again! I hope you’re doing well. Now it’s the 9th week. Can’t believe how time flies! It’s only 1 more week of studying and 1 more for ...