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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...energy intake by up to 16% among UK adults or 29% among US adults. [Woman drinking from a double-sized cup] The Double-Sized Big Gulp cup was a marketing gimmick - but could large-sized cups, plates and packages be encouraging us to over-eat? Overeating increases the risks of heart disease, diabetes, and many cancers, which are among the leading causes of ill health and...
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Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...energy. Even though you may be familiar with these types of metabolisms, the microbial world offers an enormous diversity of alternatives which mean they can be found in environments on Earth where other organisms could not survive. On Europa, the thick ice layer (4–20 km) prevents any light from reaching the ocean and so, if life is present, it must be sustained by the...
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Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...energy. A lead car shone a laser onto the road to pinpoint the shortest route, ensuring Kipchoge didn’t run a step too far. A cyclist rode alongside him to pass specially formulated sports drink to ensure he didn’t become depleted of energy or dehydrated. And that’s only some of the science that supported this incredible feat. The ‘default male’ in sports...
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Article 15 mins
Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...energy bills could increase as much as 50% when the price cap is adjusted in April. Regulated rail fares will go up 3.8% in March, and food retailers will soon have to decide how far to pass on the steep wholesale price rises of basics including bread and milk. Residential rents went up 4.6% in the year to last September, reflecting the boom in house prices, whose annual...
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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...energy prices continue to roar] Martin Lewis warned us that soaring energy bills were a 'national crisis' on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the soaring didn’t end there!), US politician Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, despite discouragement from allies in the Biden administration, and the Horniman museum in London agreed to return its Benin Bronzes to Nigeria,...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...energy use is the main component, for travel it is car travel and flights, and for everything else the main components are use of services like health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income,...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...energy system and many different ways of doing things, but that doesn’t have to not mean the creation of jobs and happy people working in a healthy economy. RH: Well at the moment the projections for over this century, almost all of them project that we will overshoot the level of CO2 that’s associated with a rise of 2 Celsius, and then by the back end of the century...
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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...energy and transport and consumption of food, goods and services. It’s measured in kilograms or tonnes per year, either of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions alone, or of CO2 plus the mass of other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions converted into their carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). GHG emissions associated with human activities are responsible for the enhanced greenhouse...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs