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Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?

...health of the blood vessels in Alzheimer’s disease. Based on the current understanding, maintaining blood pressure within the “Goldilocks range” – not too high, not too low – is still the best course of action for reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original...
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Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...health pandemic, making such pedagogical and relational revisions takes on strategic importance as an element in strengthening the resilience of internationally accessible higher education. Last, but not least, there is an opportunity to develop a shared understanding of the evolving 'commonwealth' in education. This evolution is bound to become critically important on...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...health example In terms of the democratisation of knowledge, I mean to step aside from conservation and sustainability issues for a while and look at health, I mean health I think is the interesting high watermark of all this, people now perhaps understand more about their own health, their own medical issues than perhaps their GP does. So people now will go to their GP...
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Video 30 mins
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...health benefits from speaking more than one language, including faster stroke recovery and delayed onset of dementia. Could it be that the human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? And in a world that is losing languages faster than ever – at the current rate of one a fortnight, half our...
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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...public agencies: the health authority and the local authority social services department. That was where, it seemed, the power resided. This needs to be qualified. The public agencies had the power of, amongst other things, funding and their statutory authority. But some civil society organisations had themselves become big players, particularly those which had both a...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...health point of view), arrived in Valencia few hours later (around 1100h). The third ship was the Italian naval vessel “Orion” with 250people on board. According to the information provided by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, there were 26 different nationalities on board. The 10 main nationalities were from Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea, South Sudan, Algeria, Ghana,...
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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...public services such as the National Health Service (NHS). Second, the UK’s tax and state benefits system also has the effect of some redistribution of income – some of the taxes raised collectively are transferred back to individuals and households. Of course, the people receiving benefits will often be different from those paying taxes such as Income Tax, but many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...public speaking skills - for school, work, or simply for fun - and does not require any previous experience of studying this subject....Week 1: Getting started: Introduction - Welcome to Talk the talk. This course will provide you with the language and strategies to deliver talks with a difference. It will boost your confidence and turn public speaking into a valuable...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs