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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...human milk chain in India, and how this led her and her co-author, Professor Newman, onto the curation of the ‘This is Essential Work’ exhibition. Transcript This is essential work Artists from the ‘This Is Essential Work’ shared their experiences and motivations behind their artwork. Listen to the voices of numerous artists from across a range of countries that...
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Will burnt food give you cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will burnt food give you cancer?

...humans when consumed at the levels typically found in cooked food. A 2015 review of available data concluded that “dietary acrylamide is not related to the risk of most common cancers”. Although, it added that a modest association for kidney cancer, and for endometrial and ovarian cancers in people who had never smoked, couldn’t be ruled out. Meaty concerns Going...
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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...Humanities courses and qualifications [Vesta ] Vesta, goddess of hearth (palace garden of Sanssouci, Potsdam) by Francois Gaspard Adam, 1758 Virginity, women’s lack of sexual experience before marriage in particular, has been highly valued in many different cultures. Some feminist critics have argued that the high value placed on the virginity of unmarried women has...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...humans interact with the world and what we might do to avoid climate breakdown. Stories can help to do that. Whether it’s the reflections on animal rights in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), the setting of a future drought-ridden California in Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun (2021), or Montaigne’s observation on...
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What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...Human Behaviour, could lead to a new way of treating patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo some form of aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by...
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Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...humans for thousands of years. In this short film, we see some of the many ways the qualities of a perfect place have been imagined and described. The film explores descriptions of heaven found in the religious books of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran and explores ways of understanding these texts. The film asks us: What might heaven look like, sound like, feel like?...
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Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?

...humans. It is caused by a mutation in a gene called “KIT”. [Black and white cat] The world's most beautiful cat. (Editorial claim). Our team of researchers from the universities of Bath, Edinburgh and Oxford have been working to unlock the mystery of how these animals get their distinctive patterns. We have discovered that the way these striking pigment patterns form...
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...Humans in general, and children in particular love repetition and ritual. There are children who love eating exactly the same thing every day. It’s all because humans love repetition. Repeating the phrases is comforting and pleasing for pupils and it builds their confidence because they are sure that they really know what we are practising. The repetition helps get the...
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