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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...classes and age groups, and brought them into the criminal justice system. It was argued that states and others thus not only portrayed them as the main cause of crime, but deployed resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and not others, while attention was argued to be deflected from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Forest by Lynn Cherry, pub 2000 Voyager Books; ISBN: 0152026142 El Gran Capoquero: UN Cuento De LA Selva Amazonica by Lynn Cherry, translated by Alma Ada, 1994 Harcourt; ISBN: 0152323201 This page was updated in April 2017 to remove some dead links, include the video tutorials, and to redraft the text to make better sense outside of the context of the original programmes....
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Video 15 mins
The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction

...De Schutter. A/HRC/50/38. New York: Human Rights Council. 50th Session. Little, M., Roelen, K., Lange, B., Steinert, J., Yakubovich, A., Cluver, L. and Humphreys, D. (2021) ‘Effectiveness of cash-plus programmes on early childhood outcomes compared to cash transfers alone: A systematic review and meta-analysis in low- and middle-income countries’. PLOS Medicine,...
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Article 5 mins
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...classes were taking over as the main musical patrons. This change is summed up by the Schubert scholar, Maurice Brown: Secular music was no longer the product and solace of the aristocratic patron; the prince and priest of the eighteenth century, whose establishments contained bands of musical servants hired to perform chamber and orchestral music, with a composer-servant...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...class of drugs for high blood pressure – during the first trimester were nearly three times more likely to have babies with major birth defects. By then, ACE inhibitors had been on the market for more than three decades, and they had traditionally been considered safe for use during the first trimester. If researchers had studied the drugs earlier, countless birth...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...variables that suppress the immune system. The result in all these cases is wounds that won’t heal. The process gets stuck permanently in the very first stage. White blood cells hang around the wound longer and in higher numbers, secreting chemicals that interfere with the growth of new cells. They also trigger production of a group of enzymes that break down the base...
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Article 5 mins
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...variables of the marketing mix is due for a rethink. This model starts with corporate strategy, which translates into a number of functional strategies (including marketing). It sees marketing communications as a subset of marketing strategy. Butterfield suggests that, because of the increased importance of company-wide brand values in providing competitive advantage,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...classes, and adolescents confirmed. In England, for instance, the latter statistic fell by half between 1956 and 1975. Religious education in schools continued, but it seems likely that this was less effective as a means of Christian socialisation than religious teaching in the home and in institutions, such as Sunday schools, directly connected with the church. Third,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs