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The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...research is underway. Of course, there are other drugs that can keep people awake. Many are illegal, such as amphetamines which some people use to help them party all night. It is emerging that one of the side effects may well turn out to be memory loss later in life, so think twice before you use drugs that haven't been through clinical trials; even if they feel good at...
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Article 10 mins
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...researching new methods of treatment. But Madhusudana believes the focus, at least in India, should be elsewhere. We know enough about the virus to fight it, he says. What we aren’t doing is effectively using that knowledge to stop it: India is a country where many health professionals, let alone citizens, don’t know how to treat a dog bite properly. “Research on...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...researchers would compare the amounts of biofilm left in the wounds to measure how effective each technique was. Cowan and Flores would also follow the patients for up to two years to see if there was a difference in how quickly their wounds healed. They had planned their trial well. What they didn’t know was whether they could get enough people to sign up. The nature...
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...research and lookup and then present whether their findings were they the real ones to discover it or not. Debates I found to be quite a good way to do it because I could arrange a debate about whether it was Al-Haythum who made all the ground-breaking discoveries or was it Snell or alternatively to look at the issue of William Harvey and ibn Nafis which is... where there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...researchers’ experience of conducting research on end-of-life care, where only 10% of the people in a study died within the year of the study, despite all being identified as likely to be in their last year of life (Borgstrom, 2014). [This is a photograph of Jane Tomlinson] Figure 2 Jane Tomlinson In addition, human beings are not machines that respond in predictable,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...research or evidence. A fact is something that everyone knows is true – there is no argument. On the other hand, an opinion is a viewpoint that other people might not share; they might argue about it. The next activity helps you to discriminate between facts and opinions in Text 3. Activity 4 Part 1 Select the answer for Task 1 here Read the following statements. Which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...researched or ‘hidden’. While we may seek to take some comfort from assumptions that discussions of poverty and inequality should start from questions of social justice, this contrasts with long-standing ideas that the poor are a ‘problem’, at times a ‘dangerous’ population. Such populations are also often associated with particular places; for instance, with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...research on the financial behaviour and decision making of both professionals, such as investment bank traders, and the rest of us in the everyday world. Organisational behaviour, at least as I practise it, draws on insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, and sometimes from wider disciplines, such as philosophy and history, to understand the behaviour of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs