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How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...World Health Organisation, in March 2020 the UK Government introduced measures designed to delay the transmission of the coronavirus. Self-isolation may lead to increased sedation, and further lack of physical, social and cognitive activity, which may not only prompt but more worryingly speed up the overall age-related decline.No matter how effective these measures can be...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...world. This is especially true in emerging economies, where they account for over half of medium-sized firms in the manufacturing sector. In particular, dynastic family firms – that is, where the founding family owns a controlling share and have appointed a second-generation (or later) family member as the CEO – account for a quarter of these firms. Since supporting...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...world, but rather the emergence of other empires that might have been worse. The presentation includes a quote from Sathnam Sanghera, which discusses the nostalgic, often romantic, manner in which colonisation is viewed in Great Britain. This chimes with the cited YouGov poll of 2020, which found that: More than 30% of British people were proud of the Empire 1/3 people in...
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Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...world - When it is 11 a.m. in Rome, what time is it in the rest of the world? Activity 5 Select the correct sentence describing the time for each one of the following cities. Select the answer for Question 1a here Roma – 11 a.m. Sono le undici del pomeriggio. Sono le undici di mattina. Sono le undici di sera. Sono le undici di notte. a. Sono le undici del pomeriggio. b....
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...world and simulating what happens when we fiddle around with them: how much rainfall, the flow of rivers, that type of thing. It’s a way of simplifying the chaos of the physical world, in a computer so that we can try to predict what might happen in the real world. You can run simulations thousands of times, each with very subtle changes to see what happens. When Jim...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...world and it does go back to childhood and I can remember the usual thing of being… hankering after a stickleback from a stream, that kind of stuff. But the seminal event like so many people, was Life On Earth. I watched the series, I had the book, I did… when we had to talks at school about animals I researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that....
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...World War...During the Second World War, Asa Briggs was just one of a whole generation of the brightest people in Britain (and some from Poland, France and the USA) who worked at Bletchley Park, breaking enemy codes. The process – given the codename ‘ULTRA’ – played a key role in the Allied victory. To make it work, the British government’s foreign intelligence...
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Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods

...World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe that has developed a set of guidelines for assessing foods that should or should not be advertised to children. Why is this – isn’t ‘low-cal’ healthier? One reason that even ‘low-cal’ drinks and foods are a cause for health campaigners’ concern is the fact that all advertising promotes a brand. If a...
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