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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...writing. A flood provides the climax to George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). The first paragraph of Margery Allingham’s crime novel The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) introduces the smog that hides the killer as he makes his murderous way around the city: ‘The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last, was...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Unlike most prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had experienced Internet infidelity – either having engaged in it themselves or having found out that their partner had indulged. The findings showed that many participants think that the internet makes infidelity more likely....
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The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new ways of dealing with infectious agents because you can be sure there are more pathogens out there, waiting for their moment to come....
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...writing and speaking tasks...Why is memory so important? ‘Working memory’ refers to the very limited number of thoughts we can hold in our minds at once. Working memory is easily overloaded so instead we tend to rely on our memories. For example, drivers don’t have to think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory....
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...writing about how to improve patient care reset the path of geriatrics in the UK and, eventually, more widely in the world. South Asian Heritage is thus woven into the fabric of this most British institution, the National Health Service. Acknowledgement: The study 'Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine', ESRC funded RES -062-23-0514 explored...
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The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...Write two or three sentences in the box below. Click ‘Save’ when you are satisfied with what you have written...Week 1: The basics of food: 1.1 What are the reasons for eating? - Food provides the energy that our bodies need to keep going. Without food, a person would typically survive for a few weeks. Without water, they could only live for a few days. In developed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...writing a White Paper, which will hopefully guide legislation. And the White Paper is a report that we give to the government and, from that, they can decide whether they want to change existing legislation. And we set out a number of points that we think could help to make eyewitness identification more accurate, and one of them is using this silhouette in a line-up, to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...write a book about Hijab, the word in the Arabic calligraphic art on the cover. ‘Veil’ has no single Arabic linguistic referent, whereas Hijab has cultural and linguistic roots that are integral to Islamic (and Arab) culture as a whole. But the publisher preferred Veil to Hijab for reader accessibility and familiarity. From a marketing angle, the publisher rightly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs