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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...determine which choice from these multitude of alternatives is most responsible? Even for consumers with reasonable levels of ethical literacy these variations create barriers to understanding and undermine choice confidence. Shoppers also need to be reassured that a label does what it says, which means they have to know they can trust the governance mechanisms that...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...determined by the theoretical question. However, it is arguable that treating method as a technical afterthought downplays the extent to which social and intellectual change might be conveyed through method. Following this, much of my work involves trying to work with the intellectual and motivational benefits of a more active engagement with methodological issues and...
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Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?

...determine the electoral outcome under first past the post. How a party targets and uses its national vote is therefore crucial under this system – and at times this appears almost random in nature. As a further example, the report also highlights that, despite increasing its national vote by almost 10%, Labour ultimately failed to target seats effectively and instead...
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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...determination, turning past setbacks into a championship-winning performance. [England’s Berri Neil, Razia Quashie, Paige Reed, Olivia Tchine and Alicia Scholes celebrate the 2025 Vitality Netball Nations Cup win.]England’s Berri Neil, Razia Quashie, Paige Reed, Olivia Tchine and Alicia Scholes celebrate the 2025 Vitality Netball Nations Cup win. The defeat 61-55...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...determined by measuring the correlation between a forecast weather map and what actually happened. This can be judged against the skill of a forecast based on statistical summaries of past records, known as climatology. Since the 1980s, computer-based forecasting has steadily improved at a rate of about one forecast day per decade. This means that a five-day forecast made...
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Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...determines the information stored in genes. To maintain healthy life the information stored in genes must be protected. However, DNA can be damaged by various factors, most notably exposure to the sun. DNA damage often takes the form of physical breaks in the DNA sequence, turning a long string of nucleotides into two shorter strings. In order to survive it is essential...
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Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...determines the information stored in the organism’s genome. The importance of DNA is such that if a DNA molecule is damaged it must be repaired quickly. To do so, life has developed DNA repair mechanisms. However, DNA repair is not fool proof and small mistakes can be made. Scientists have learned that they can benefit from these error-prone mechanisms to make small...
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Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...determining whether any given law is regarded as just. Where a law is considered to be unjust the consequences for social order can be potentially far reaching, up to and including social unrest. In contrast, formal justice is concerned with ensuring that legal principles are applied in a way which is fair. This invariably involves treating people in a similar situation...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs