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Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...history, bringing with it deep philosophical and societal implications. It would help answer fundamental questions about our role in the universe, questions that have shaped human cultures and religions for millennia. The scientific output of life-seeking missions to Europa and other icy moons could revolutionise fields such as medicine. The search for extraterrestrial...
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D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services
Health, Sports & Psychology

D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services

...History Press. McBryde, B. (1979) A Nurse’s war, London, Hogarth Press. McBryde, B. (1986) Quiet Heroines. Nurses of the Second World War, Saffron Walden, Cakebreads Publications. Nicholson, V. (2011) Millions like us. Women’s lives in war and peace 1939-1949, London, Penguin. Taylor, E. (1997) Front-line Nurse. British Nurses in World War II, Bury St Edmunds, St...
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How to keep your kidneys healthy
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to keep your kidneys healthy

...history of diabetes or high blood pressure, common risk factors for kidney disease. If you smoke, try to stop. Get help from a local smoke-free service. Within the United Kingdom (UK), the National Health Service (NHS) smoke cessation service offers free advice and support. 4) Reduce alcohol consumption Excessive amounts of alcohol can reduce blood flow to the kidneys,...
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If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Science, Maths & Technology

If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors

...history. Other than that, I recommend publication. Reviewer #3 It took me nine weeks to finally submit my critique, but I am against the publication of this script. I feel that the end results are highly misleading, and I won’t be surprised if some (or all) of them are retracted in a couple of years. This article originally appeared on the PLOS SciComm blog under a...
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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...families. Young Offender Institutions can sometimes be remote from the places where the young people in them actually live. The language of court sentences and youth justice procedures can come to dominate young people’s lives, obscuring other features of their lives and circumstances. If you found it difficult to understand the operation of the system, consider what it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...history of flight, ballooning had a profound effect on the epistemological model of being in the world and viewing landscape. That balloons are innately comic is undeniable, and their physical attributes were a gift to satirists of the late eighteenth century, who riffed delightedly on the graphic and semantic associations of this new and somewhat unlikely technology....
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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...history of social scientific definitions of poverty. It addresses how social scientific ideas about participation in social worlds have impacted on public debates and policies about poverty, inequality and social exclusion. You should now watch the film. You will need to spend some time engaging with its themes and issues, and we recommend that you watch it at least...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...family and the importance of the family and different family structures and different family shapes that aren’t all the same, but the role of those informal relationships. So it’s not just about what happens in the NHS and indeed it’s not just about what people in government and policy makers say. The implementation of social policy covers a wide range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs