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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...feedback-loops between the understandings of science and society. For more on this study and analysis, the full PLoS ONE article can be accessed here: O’Connor C, Joffe H (2014) Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media Environment.PLoS ONE 9(10): e110830. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110830 This article was originally published by the LSE...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Feedback from students and teachers emphasised the empowering element of learning thorough activities that are engaging fun and playful and that fosters curiosity and engagement through making. Enthusiasm for a creative and fun approach to teaching is reflected in the teachers’ comments collected for the Programme’s final report (Impact Hub Kathmandu, 2022): Visiting...
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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...feedback from a survey of Welsh part-time and Higher Education students in 2020. Links are directly embedded throughout the article to take to other useful resources but in some cases information and advice has been sourced and repurposed from the following organisations: National Health Service (NHS), The Open University and Psychology Today. This resource is part of the...
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What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...classes in Los Angeles. She was named an astronaut candidate in 1987, and flew her first flight as a science mission specialists on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in September 1992, logging 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space. In March 1993, Dr. Jemison resigned from NASA, thought she still resides in Houston, Texas. She went on to publish her memoirs, Find Where the Wind...
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Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...classes. They can get away for part of the day, and breathe fresh air. The unfortunate people who live close to the banks of the stream must, most of them, stay continually within its baleful influence. Cholera may, happily, not break out; but in any case the fetod odours the river regularly omits must produce much sickness and suffering in those exposed to them. Nor is...
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Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...class institutions to a few more different people, without doing anything for any of the people who needed the cause most in the first place. It come down to this. Major corporations can't claim that by using trans identities to sell clothes, or beer, or whatever it is this week, they are doing something radical or political. Trans is not a commodity to be bought and...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...class and political ideology regularly splintered women’s organizing. Whether change can come from joining government and business, or must come from dismantling these institutions, is a defining question for all three major waves of women’s organizing. Elite white women have disproportionately benefited from each wave of women’s organizing in the United States....
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...class, let alone why I would want to study even more languages that I didn’t have to study at school. Fortunately, I did have some tolerant friends during my school years, and they thought my quirky love of language was something that they could just accept, and I would take with me to university and then probably relocate to Brussels. They joked that one day my head...
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