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What is a Sardinian dig telling us about female mobility of the Phoenicians?
History & The Arts

What is a Sardinian dig telling us about female mobility of the Phoenicians?

...study, researchers analyzed ancient DNA from Phoenician remains found in Sardinia and Lebanon to investigate how Phoenicians integrated with the Sardinian communities they settled. The authors looked at mitogenomes — DNA found in cells’ mitochondria, which is inherited from one’s mother — in a search for markers of Phoenician ancestry. They found 14 previously...
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Introducing Religions
History & The Arts

Introducing Religions

...study religion? An understanding of the world’s religious traditions is crucial in helping us to appreciate not just the varied forms of belief and practice that we encounter at home, abroad and in the media, but also the influence that religion has on world affairs. This course offers an introduction to the study of religions, and in particular to six major religions:...
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...skill to getting it just right. Has natural history television failed to reflect the demise of the natural world? Personally I feel as a whole that media, so TV, radio, just the whole package, has not accurately reflected the sheer scale of environmental destruction and loss of wildlife that’s occurred around the planet. I believe that we’re just living in denial, I...
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two people have more...
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Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...studies dispute commonly held assumptions such as the fact that our weight is in our control, and that there are causal links between size and physical and psychological ill health. What larger people do experience is the daily stigma of being told their bodies are not aesthetically worthy, and that they take up too much space. Take the phenomenon of the ‘Headless...
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The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...studied of these icy moons are Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Enceladus (Figure 1) is relatively small; approximately 500 km in diameter. But despite its small stature, Enceladus has captivated planetary scientists. The Cassini spacecraft, which studied Enceladus in detail between 2005 and 2016, discovered the existence of enormous...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...study put it: ‘There are these massive gaps in between these old compliance models—big enough to drive a truck through. And so we try to fill in the gaps.’ Designers are close enough to see emerging problems but not always empowered to raise concerns directly. Ethics might be seen as too abstract or too time‑consuming. As another interview participant put it: ‘I...
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...study in Criminology...Crimes of the powerful: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline the importance of the concept of power in understanding criminological research agendas define various categories of ‘crimes of the powerful’ describe how researching the powerful can reshape the boundaries and goals of critical criminology...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs