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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...family member) or a change in life circumstances (retirement, redundancy, birth of a child, changes to physical and mental health). Changes can be positive or negative, expected or unexpected, planned or unplanned. The impact of the change can sometimes be experienced in contrast to the nature of the change itself: a positive change can have negative impacts, and vice...
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Article 10 mins
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...family break-up, and even losing her personal freedom by going to jail. Yet she seems to have come out with no bitterness and resumed her peaceful struggle, eventually reaching greater heights, including government minister when democratic reforms came. She made environmental issues not only a concern of Kenya’s but also Africa’s concern, through the Green Belt...
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Article 10 mins
Eid al-Adha
History & The Arts

Eid al-Adha

...family members and then gather with friends and relatives to give each other gifts and to enjoy a meal together (and they may exchange special greetings cards). As well as an opportunity for prayer and rejoicing, Eid al-Adha is time for gratitude when people will thank God for all the blessings they have received. It is a time for generosity too, and Muslims are...
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Are you ready for online study?
Digital & Computing

Are you ready for online study?

...family life, and access materials at any time. However, this flexibility can quickly become overwhelming when students are required to navigate digital platforms. Having a computer and an internet connection is not always enough to succeed in online study. Many students struggle not because they lack access to technology, but because they lack the digital skills needed...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...history might suggest, defining and conceptualising rights is not straightforward. This section aims to provide a working definition of ‘rights’ and introduce some important debates about rights. It aims to supply some conceptual tools to use when the discussion moves to the sphere of international politics...Rights and justice in international relations: 3.2 What are...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...history by successfully demonstrating his primitive television system to a public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular high-definition television service, on the 2nd of November 1936. Television broadcasts were suspended with the outbreak ofthe Second World War. When they resumed in...
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Article 15 mins
Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...history is known, and they weren’t trying to fix games for most of it, decent estimates of the probabilities can be made. Mostly though, there is very little data for deliberately thrown games. It is disappointing that statisticians have no foolproof way of evaluating these two disparate sounding, but structurally similar types of evidence. As statisticians we must...
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How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?

...history - as the most disliked pairing in a Presidential race in living memory. So how do voters choose when they feel both options are unpalatable?...[Two candles wilting in extreme heat] What do you do when neither option stands up? How do voters select a candidate when no one they like is on the ballot? Behavioral scientists have studied decision-making – including...
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