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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
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...research and theory around the psychological aspects of sport injury, you’ll first examine your own thoughts on the potential links. Activity 2 Early thoughts – psychological aspects of injury Timing: Allow about 10 minutes If you have suffered from a sport injury in the past, think about some of the thoughts, feelings and behaviours you experienced before you were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Information Awareness Office (IAO), brought his Total Information Awareness programme to Congress where even the congress-critters eventually rejected it. Yet the intelligence agencies went ahead and essentially built and operated the infrastructure of mass surveillance in secret anyway. When the NSA, both considered, ditched the...
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Video 15 mins
What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...Research Institute at two recent protests in São Paulo (one pro-government and the other against), anti-government demonstrators were 13 percent more likely to earn above US$27,600 annually. Anti-government demonstrators were also less likely to be civil servants, and more likely to own their own businesses. But at both rallies, nearly 80 percent of demonstrators were...
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Article 5 mins
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...research. The Democratic Set Originally devised and designed by Artistic Director Bruce Gladwin, The Democratic Set is one of those residency models. It is an approach to creating short films and performances that, when edited together, capture a unique picture of a community at a particular moment in time. Using a custom-made film set – a neutral room with two opposing...
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Article 20 mins
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...Research undertaken during 2020 showed us that over half the audience at the time was using the platform because of events relating to the pandemic – a combination of furlough, redundancy, supporting others’ education, needing to improve online teaching skills or simply having more time to learn. Importantly, across the platform, 38% of learners declared they were...
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Article 5 mins
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...research and popular education remain a vexed problem for museum administrators everywhere. 'History is other people's junk', a sign in the CheckPoint Charlie Museum in Berlin reads. Fortunately the Victorian obsessions with 'junk' associated with archaeology, anthropology and Empire and natural history resulted in 'cathedrals to science'. Of course the order has moved...
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Article 10 mins
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...research on how healing it is to spend time outdoors using green and blue spaces. One of the key ways of maintaining our wellbeing is having the opportunity to leave the house and just spend time outdoors. The exercise could be strenuous but it doesn’t need to be in order to gain the desirable protective effect on our health and wellbeing. More about how spending time...
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Article 10 hrs 34 mins