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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...research has revealed the stereotype view of the scientist as a white male Einstein lookalike (Reiss, 2002). Different images of scientists are present in the media today, but has this changed the images that children and young people have of science and scientists? Activity 3 Images of science Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Ask two or three children or teenagers who you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...researcher into smiles over the past 30 years has been Paul Ekman at the University of California. His 1978 Facial Action Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused?...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...research that shows that different parts of the brain are involved in these two different tasks. Age is clearly a significant factor that affects performance; younger children tend to be less fluent than older children and adults. This has a lot to do with how many words are in a person’s vocabulary. One important aspect of verbal fluency is having a large vocabulary of...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...research organisation MORI interviewed 1,955 adults across the UK. Of the 949 of these who said they would be certain to vote if there were an election the next day, 39% said they would vote Conservative, 35% Labour, 19% Liberal Democrat, and the rest for other parties or candidates. These numbers are statistics in the plural sense; they are facts about what the...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...glorious past, ‘they didn’t live through it’. As the research progresses, it is clear that citizenship and political engagement is lifelong. Just because official information gatherers do not recognise the value of the opinions of our oldest citizens does not mean their voices should be silenced. They have important things to say, and we should be listening....
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OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...research from the USA on whether judges, lawyers, law students and the general public think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He...
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Dialogues Across Borders
Society, Politics & Law

Dialogues Across Borders

...research on smartphones and refugees and the poetry and photo exhibition she co-created with refugees at Pikpa Camp formed the basis of two of the workshops. Elena’s travelling exhibition which she took to many cities across the world as part of Play is Hope project forged new relationships with refugees and artists and some of them joined us at the Tate by videolink...
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Do dogs want to go to heaven?
History & The Arts

Do dogs want to go to heaven?

...research demonstrates that many animals demonstrate complex abilities to anticipate and plan future possibilities. Cows and crows solve problems, thereby indicating their ability to want better situations. We may never know whether dogs believe in heaven or not, but there is evidence that animals can and do want things, and that they act on those desires to shape their...
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