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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...become so deeply engrained that gender identities and gender differences seem fundamental to who we are? As Rosalind Gill has written, "how it is … that socially constructed ideals of beauty or sexiness are internalized and made our own, that is, really, truly, deeply our own, felt not as external impositions but as authentically ours?" This is one of the important...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...become resistant to antibiotics, and they can change their biochemistry in order to adapt to these antibiotics and prevent the antibiotics from damaging the cell. NARRATOR: It's standard evolutionary behaviour. When bacteria reproduce, chance mutations occur. Most will be useless. But sometimes there will be one that will protect the bacterium against a particular...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...becoming utilities”, says Edward George, Ecobank’s UK Country Head and Head of Group Research. “With utilities, you start providing services over a certain network and you’re kind of stuck there; they have no growth potential, and people don’t want to invest in them.” He spoke with LSE Business Review managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and...
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Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...students. [MUSIC PLAYING] FIONA SCOTT: I'm Fiona Scott. I work at the University of Hertfordshire in a S&C department within that called Performance Herts. We deliver to university athletes, as well as external clubs such as Saracens Mavericks, Arsenal Ladies, Women's FC. And then on top of that, we've done workshops in S&C areas and fields, and also lecture. Today we're...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...students don’t understand what you’re saying, you might repeat it or reword it – or say it more loudly! Generally, there are a number of things you might do when you are not understood. You might speak more loudly or more slowly; you might try repeating or rewording what you said; you might ask your listener if they understood you. Sometimes you might even try...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...student at Harvard, Michael Marshak, now assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues report in Science journal that, instead of costly and difficult-to-handle metals, they have tested naturally-occurring, carbon-based molecules called quinines for the negative electrolyte component of the battery. They had started their...
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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...student. It’s hard to ignore that kind of phone call. Running with it The same technology can power smart sports clothing, so that your jogging suit or cycling shorts could carry a global positioning system (GPS) unit and a fitness monitor powered by your movements as you pedal or run. You could monitor and analyse your workout before you hit the shower. Australian...
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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...student journalists at Cardiff University each year: “If you’re first and wrong, you’re not first.” Unsourced chatter Channel 4 News’s apology said their correspondent quoted a source he trusted naming the attacker. No further information on who the source was or where the information came from was provided. Like many news addicts, I was watching Twitter as the...
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