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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry. So this place is just full of...
Young people’s wellbeing
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Young people’s wellbeing

...work with them/support them? What might an alternative, critical framework for understanding young people's wellbeing look like? How is young people's wellbeing shaped by diversity and inequality? What are the implications of a critical approach for promoting young people's wellbeing? You will begin by looking at two newspaper stories that are fairly typical of recent...
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Can comedy change your life?
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Can comedy change your life?

...working through difficult subjects or feelings. [Negin Farsad] Negin Farsad Over the years, researchers have built a substantial body of evidence that some types of comedy – including sophisticated satire, which is growing in popularity – perform a potent social function, from breaking taboos to holding those in power to account. Avner Ziv, who has written numerous...
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important milestone, inspiring...
The research and modelling of COVID-19
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The research and modelling of COVID-19

...working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-Indore). He has a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State University and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center before joining IIM-Indore. His primary research interests include...
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...work of the aid effort. Some of the grandest assistance schemes produced the most meagre results. Everywhere you look are prefabricated huts left over from the aid effort. They have turned the town and the valley blue, an unfamiliar colour in an area where people normally build in stone and wood. A decade after the distribution of temporary shelters, these glorified tin...
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it down is really important because then you know exactly what it is you’ve...
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