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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...education system feels overwhelming, but we can all work at solving ways it can manifest. There are extra resources imbedded throughout this article which aim to be informative. Now you will hear from Ruby, Lenny and Kate Williams. Ruby I am 21 and at university, but when I was 16, I wasn’t sure how to get my life back on track as my mental health, confidence and world...
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Article 15 mins
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...education and health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC...
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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...Technology) for the discovery of the mechanism for autophagy, one of the key ways in which the cells in our body destroy and recycle unwanted or damaged cellular material. What is autophagy? In order for the cells in our body to function correctly, they continually renew the vital internal machinery necessary for them to survive. To balance this, there must exist...
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New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM), feast your eyes on our interactive toolkit. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Choose health Quarantine is bound to have an impact on our physical and mental health. Maybe you'd like to use this as an opportunity to go on health kick, or maybe you want to concentrate on your mental...
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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...technology, retail, leisure and manufacturing as the rest of the population. Also, farming and gardening work used to be a feature of some of the old asylums and so did not seem so appropriate in the age of ‘care in the community’. So it is interesting that we now seem to have come full circle with the benefits of working outdoors being increasingly recognised by...
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The house doesn't always win
Digital & Computing

The house doesn't always win

...technology that makes you uncomfortable. https://www.businessinsider.in/Hackers-stole-a-casinos-high-roller-database-through-a-thermometer-in-the-lobby-fish-tank/articleshow/63769685.cms https://www.darktrace.com/resources/wp-global-threat-report-2017.pdf (Page 8) To see an example of internet of things being abused by large companies; Wolf Richter (awesome name) wrote...
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Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...The issues of how reliable information gets pushed out by false information, of how news reporting can be corrupted by propaganda, of how we manage the outsized role that social media and digital technologies now play in our lives. These are all going to continue as pressing issues that society needs to address, whatever term we might decide to use to describe them....
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Exploring stereotypes in STEM
Education & Development

Exploring stereotypes in STEM

...Technology, Engineering and Maths. ...Stereotypes of who belong in STEM can influence our thinking and how we perceive our own position within the STEM disciplines. If you take a few minutes to visualise who you think would be a ‘typical’ STEM professional, what images and/or words come to mind? Were they male or female? White or racially marginalised? Able bodied or...
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