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Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?

...research suggests that - perhaps aptly - there's an bulge in the middle of income strata when it comes to tucking into fast food...Eating fast food is frequently blamed for damaging our health. As nutrition experts point out, it is not the healthiest type of meal since it is typically high in fat and salt. More widely, it’s seen as a key factor in the growing obesity...
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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...research using Talk Factory in her lessons in January and February 2019. Talk Factory is an online tool and app which supports learning by helping teachers and their students to understand how to engage in productive argumentation in primary and secondary schools. This is an important aspect of education described in the English National Curriculum (2014) as follows:...
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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods” - Foster The open movement has been promoting knowledge as a public good and supporting the remix culture (read/write society) through various methods, media and formats. Open...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...research says In our research, we set out to discover what makes an effective leader. We were particularly interested in “purposeful leadership” since a more thoughtful and purposeful approach is often been hailed as the antidote to failings caused by a relentless focus on short-term financial imperatives. Purposeful leaders are individuals with a strong sense of...
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Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...Research Centre for supporting the development of this course, Hannah Parish for her expertise and kind help, Andrew Rix for his filming expertise, and Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown, Val McDermid, Sir Ian Rankin and Craig Robertson for their time and insights into the creative process. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Tomorrow's World
Science, Maths & Technology

Tomorrow's World

...research that's landed us on a comet - we've got it covered. We're also co-producing a number of programmes with the BBC for Tomorrow's World, including Britain's Greatest Invention and Horizon: 10 Things You Need to Know about the Future. In the meantime, enjoy an abundance of FREE learning on the ever-changing world of science: How is my life changing? How is my world...
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Does your personality influence your career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does your personality influence your career?

...research we’ve been focusing on most recently is within distinct employers to see whether we get quite different effects in different places. And we get, those effects are coming through. Certainly we’re getting the impression that people are drawn towards different occupations, they feel attracted to them dependent on their personality. Whether they enjoy their job...
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Ever Wondered About... Pancakes?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pancakes?

...centre of your pancake burning while the edges stay raw. Metals like copper are best for this, but watch out for copper handles that aren’t insulated — it’s easy to cook your hand along with the dinner! Just from the colour of the yolk of an egg, you may be able to work out something about the diet of the hen that laid it. A hen fed yellow corn will lay eggs with a...
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