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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...technologies like artificial snowmaking. [An image of a competitive skier in a crouching position, taken from side-on. In the near background is a sloping, snowy hill. The skier is carrying sports equipment on their back.] The moving of the games to January is also one of the conclusions from a research note written by Daniel Scott, Robert Steiger and Madeleine Orr that...
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What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...technology more viable, it also provides an environmental advantage: methane is a harmful greenhouse gas. This is by no means the only use for waste coffee grounds. As a relatively pure and essentially free waste stream, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs have looked into various ways of putting it to use. Burn coffee for low-cost fuel For a few years now, Nestlé...
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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...technologies, changes in schedules, and additional support with certain types of tasks. This approach to accommodations recognises the social model of disability, which focuses on removing barriers for people and recognises that such barriers can be disabling. When it comes to ADHD, the application of such adaptations can sometimes overly emphasise enabling the person to...
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Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...technology and a multi-generational workforce. It is no wonder that many people feel demotivated and disconnected, with lower wellbeing and performance at work. In developing this hub, we want to help answer questions around how psychology can help: How important is the application of psychology in the workplace during such turbulent times, and in moving forward? What can...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...technology and bridge construction – what does an engineer look like? You don’t have to wear overalls to excel in the sector. Transcript. 3. Women are too timid to be engineers Historically, female engineers might have struggled to hold their own in a room full of male colleagues. Diana Thomas McEwen knows, first hand, that this simply isn’t the case any more. “I...
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Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...technology (including the BN-600 and BN-800 power plants). Despite the challenges fast reactors continue to attract much technical interest in the UK and around the world given their potential fuel cycle efficiencies. India, for example, has a major fast reactor programme based at the Indira Ghandi Centre for Atomic Research near Chennai in the south-east of the country....
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...technologies, we can just go out and spend a long, long time filming something as it happens in real behaviour as much as we can.’ Or alternatively, this is when it comes to another reason for stock shot footage, for instance, is where they will go out and attempt to film a sequence of say, a lion kill or something like that or a tiger kill, and find that they haven’t...
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Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...Education (ITE) course. Finally, it might be thought of as a type of dialogue or prose, a particular type of conversation or a writing style that captures your personal views and relates them to evidence you have collected from elsewhere. Before considering the nature of reflection and the theoretical ideas that underpin it, it is worth considering why reflective practice...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs