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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these recent societal shifts for our thinking about romantic relationships. The thought-provoking episodes are still available as downloadable podcasts on the Thinking Allowed website. Following the success of the series, Thinking Allowed are following it up...
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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...family [Figure 4] Happy families in the 1950s This course is an introduction to analysing and interpreting photographs as social data. Most of us look at photographs almost every day of our lives: in the media, on billboards, perhaps in a gallery, even at work. Often we afford them only a passing glance. Most of us also make them ourselves: pictures of our family, loved...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supply chains: the supermarket
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: the supermarket

...chain in Thailand Managing Thai Tesco How stock is managed amongst different Tesco stores, and how this affects the local competition Where do old rubber trees go? One company's waste is another's resource. A Thai company tranforms its leftovers into luxury products for Tesco UK Tesco comes to Hungary Developing hypermarkets in the transition economies of Central Europe....
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Audio 1 hr 14 mins
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...family trees with her patients – a routine practice in genetic counselling with certain diseases – she uncovered trails of cancer among their relatives, often reaching back generations. They had all the hallmarks of Li–Fraumeni, but Achatz was perplexed: “It really struck me because this was considered to be a very rare syndrome around the world. There were only...
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Article 10 mins
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...tree. The 150-year-old tree was carefully accommodated in the original layout of Central Milton Keynes and survived for a few years as the centrepiece of the Intu shopping centre extension. For a few years, it even boasted its own subcultural tribe, known locally as the Treebos, a loose collection of punks and goths who made it their base. Even then it was becoming an...
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Video 25 mins
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America: (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru): With Supplementary Notes) by Alwyn H. Gentry and Adrian B. Forsyth, University of Chicago Press1996; ISBN: 0226289443 (An excellent resource on learning to identify tropical plants in the field/forest) Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics by...
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Video 15 mins
How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...families from around Britain looking back on the first half of the twentieth century suggests that the impact of the stove on room function occurred later in these households. The autobiographers revealed that it was not just the poorest families who lacked a gas stove at the turn of the century. Even better-off working class families described making this switch in the...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography...[Photos from Karen Horsley] Although there is often a surprise at the idea of young children using cameras intentionally to communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so. Building on the idea that children have funds of knowledge that they...
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