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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...change and evolve throughout our life. However, there are certain aversions that will never change, and this is because they are mostly caused by our genes. Back when we were cavepeople, bitter foods were mostly poisonous and bad for us. Due to this, some people developed the “superpower” of detecting even the smallest hint of bitterness, thus protecting themselves...
Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...Change) that promotes and supports the development of these colleges and the numbers are likely to grow in this country and beyond http://www.imroc.org/get-involved/imroc-recovery-college-network/. 4. What do the people who use Recovery Colleges think about them? Although it is still relatively early on in the development of recovery colleges the indications are that the...
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...change from optimism over the Commonwealth and over Britain as a jet-age great power in the 1940s-50s, towards comedy and cynicism over empire by the 1960s. Starting with the Empire and Commonwealth Annuals of the early postwar years, it ends with Carry on Up the Khyber and the Flashman novels...Prejudices and assumptions from the heyday of Empire died a slow death as...
Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...changing outcomes of ongoing risk assessments, health experts’ recommendations and political decision-making. A common way to connect these different phases,̶ and ensure the communication of a clear and consistent message,̶ is to formulate the public health risk as a problem, which can be dealt with a single action in each phase. For example, in the first phase of the...
Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...change the default settings that make their routers possible. VPNFilter attacks consumer routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and on network-attached storage devices from QNAP. The security company Symantec has provided a full list of affected routers. VPNFilter is a sophisticated piece of malware clearly developed by skilled programmers. It is composed of...
Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...changes throughout the period in question. The ongoing debate around Red Clydeside is no exception to this. While many associate it with the start of the First World War, it is already apparent that its antecedents were laid down during the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. To identify a year when ‘it’ came to 'an end' is also...
The rise of the Roses
Health, Sports & Psychology

The rise of the Roses

...change and alter the perception of the sport and showcase the athleticism of the female body. Netball has undergone a vast transition from its inception to the game that we see today, with many rule changes over the years to improve the speed and excitement of the game. [Photograph of England netball player Imogen Allison receiving the ball in a game.]England Centre...
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...changing the care people receive? Researchers have long demonstrated the policy-practice gap and difficulties with implementing guidance in practice (for example, see Borgstrom and Lemos Dekker (2022) for an article about end of life care). In order to examine how people have been using the Ambitions framework, we undertook a multi-modal approach to explore how people...