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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...human cancer. Most often this corruption of p53 occurs spontaneously in individual cells or tissues that have sustained some damage in the rough and tumble of living, and this can set them on the path to cancer – a risk that increases the longer one lives. But some people are born with corrupted p53 in every cell of their body, and are extremely vulnerable to cancer...
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Article 10 mins
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...human hair is sewn into one's own natural hair. There are many different ways to wear a weave. A woman may braid her hair and then sew ‘tracks’ (strips of hair) onto the braided hair or use a bonding method where tracks can be glued to the hair at the root. Braid extensions are similarly a method where synthetic or human hair is braided into a person’s own hair,...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. Go to Week 1...Week 1: Fictional villains: Introduction - Who is your favourite fictional villain? From Voldemort to Moriarty, from Hannibal Lecter to Cruella de Vil, villains are often the most thrilling aspect of a story and can be more exciting than the hero. It is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...human subjects. If, as suggested, cognitive development is affected by exposure to media, then this kind of research could inform the types of screen-based interactions we allow young children to have. Should parents be concerned? “They should be vigilant and careful about the amount of time and the content their children have access to,” says Christakis. Although...
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Article 5 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...resource for conversation, for connection and for spinning webs of reader relationships. Such ‘books in common’ play a particularly resonant role in helping build communities of engaged readers. Reading Teachers In the TaRs project some, though not all teachers, developed as Reading Teachers—teachers who read and readers who teach, and who explore the classroom...
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Article 10 mins
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...humans and has always been part of the environment. In fact, it is radioactive decay that provides the majority of the Earth’s internal heat that causes volcanoes to erupt and drives plate tectonics. Radioactive materials are all around you! Watch the video in the next section for some background to the discovery of radioactivity...Week 1: Into the atom: 1.2.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...humans too). This impracticality aside, there was also the task of locating a gene whose sequence was not known, in a genome that was, at the time, a no man’s land. “Most people said I was crazy,” says Mignot. In a sense, they were right, because it took him more than a decade, hundreds of dogs and over $1 million. And he was nearly beaten to it. In January 1998,...
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Article 15 mins
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...human right to a fair trial Video 3 Reasons [Described image] Figure 6 The route through evidence and facts to decisions In the following activity you will have an opportunity to try and give reasons for your finding of fact, your finding of law, and your decision-making. In the case you have to decide, both the facts and the law are uncertain. Do not worry if you find...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs