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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...Research Foundation, this elite institution, there wasn’t even a black person in retail much less in the research institute, and this was my first big break. Benjamin Zephaniah Right, I want to inspire lots of young people, especially black people, to be like you, what do I tell them? Prof Geoff Palmer I realised early that if I’m going to defend myself in any society...
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Video 5 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...researchers seem to have said that there is a universal disgust response when you see faeces, but particularly when you smell it. But can you imagine having to do that research? That made me smile, the thought of how you carry out your research project? But nevertheless, in the early modern past you had status the higher up the royal chain of command you were, and the...
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Article 30 mins
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...children. The first word you hear is ‘Wow!’ [TURBINE SPINNING] ADAM TWINE So here, out west, we’re on the farm on the Oxford and Wiltshire border. I farm here. This is our crop of barley at the back here – golden, blowing brightly in the breeze. LIZ ROTHSCHILD So I’m called Liz. This is Sue. Well, I’m sort of inevitably involved with the wind farm because my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...children. Having received an excellent education, she took to writing verses to earn a living and these were well received. This success helped her become one of the first professional female writers in Europe. Her patrons included Louis I, Duke d’Orléans; the Duke de Berry; Philip II the Bold of Burgundy; Queen Isabella of Bavaria and, in England, the 4th Earl of...
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Article 5 mins
Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe
Nature & Environment

Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe

...centred politics that also puts the environment and social justice at its core. This means creating a positive vision of global solidarity in Europe, where people are engaged towards building a society that adheres to its ecological limits and ensures that standards of fairness and equity are applied, while keeping vested corporate interests at bay. However, Rome wasn’t...
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Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...researched how otherkin, and others, have been viewed through the centuries. ...As social beings, a sense of identity plays an important role in our relations – and in our own happiness. But identity doesn’t have to be narrowly human. In an essay looking at the groups that exist on the edge of conventional boundaries, and are often subject to prurience and ridicule,...
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Article 10 mins
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...researching the storytelling patterns of my community. I spent days trying to persuade my grandma to tell me some of the stories from her time. But she’s always been moody, and she wouldn’t comply. Then one morning, out of the blue, she started telling me stories. After the first one, I had this gut feeling that I had to record it, even though I didn’t know how I...
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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...children, it’s been shown in research that women disproportionately take on the burden of paid and unpaid labour. So this affects women both with and without children. So with women with children, obviously have the additional responsibility of childcare issues as well. But there’s the concern that this flexibility will make it easier for women to take on these...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs