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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...world today. The standard French baguette weighs 250 g and is just one of many long white loaves freshly baked every day by French bakers. Typically, a baguette is about 5-6 cm in diameter and 60 cm long, although they can be as long as a metre. People buy their baguettes every day, sometimes in the morning and again in the afternoon, so they’re deliciously fresh to...
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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...world, like drinking cow wee in India, or warding off evil by displaying disembowelled monkeys in Cambodia. In the UK, conspiracy theories circulated about mobile phone 5G coverage. At least 70 arson attacks were recorded against phone masts. While bizarre and outlandish, such beliefs and practises relate to a fundamentally human need to feel a sense of control over...
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Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...World Cup Qatar 2022 coming-up, it's likely to be in the spotlight once again...Why is concussion a serious issue? Media reports have raised awareness of key issues such as the higher risk of concussion in female youth footballers, the need for more effective concussion guidelines, and the link between heading the ball and degenerative brain disease. The latter has been...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...world of Facebook gender categories, in the first of two posts...This content is associated with The Open University's Open degree qualification. [People look at Facebook in this cartoon, with varying responses to the range of gender identities on offer] February is a pretty busy time for somebody who writes about sex, gender and relationships, what with the coinciding of...
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Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...world, there are different views about how neurodiversity is understood and therefore defined. Some cultures are yet to accept the paradigm of neurodiversity and believe that experiences of ADHD, autism, etc are all forms of mental health disorders. Behaviours that are classed as different or a difficulty vary widely because of the different expectations of social...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...world. It also serves to divert attention away from the relationship between modern industrial Britain’s economic success, its leading role in the Atlantic Slave Trade and its often violent, exploitative colonial rule. These historical narratives also perpetuate a crude racialised hierarchy between white and black. The stories that underpin this ‘whitewashed’...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Social intelligence is often linked with the use of emotional intelligence. This involves an interplay between emotions (the affective domain) and thinking (the cognitive domain). Stavrou Theodotou (2020) uses the work of Mayer and Salovey (1997) to identify four cognitive abilities that illustrate emotional intelligence: Appraisal and...
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...world in television and to hopefully find ways and means to encourage and perhaps enforce better standards of practice across the broadcast media industry. Heading off harm There is a wide range of potential harms of participating in broadcast productions, especially for people other than professional actors and celebrities (who may be more versed in tackling the...
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