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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?

...types of cancer with which each mutation was associated. Aware from his records of the extreme rarity of Li–Fraumeni syndrome, he was fascinated by Achatz’s case notes. He persuaded the young doctor to return to France with blood samples from her Brazilian patients and work with him on identifying exactly what was wrong with their p53 genes. The two researchers were...
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...type cinemas against all the top movies, and to succeed there at all is fantastic and I’m very excited by that, because it’s a different audience, it’s an audience that don’t turn to natural history on TV very much. I also feel we do need to look at massive projects that can look at the whole state of the planet. I really do feel there is time for an audit. There...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...types of presenter, whether it’s genres of programmes or programme making. It’s not exclusive to environmental television, to wildlife television; it’s just harder with those deeper issues to keep reinventing those, but I think there still is capacity to engage an audience and to surprise an audience; you’ve just go to work a lot, lot harder on it. What if the BBC...
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Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...type are incredibly complex and cannot be done over a glass of Chardonnay during dinner. It is likely that the British public are starting to wake up to the fact that negotiating an exit deal is difficult and this is reflected in a growing pessimism with 34% saying (in the previously referenced opinion poll) that they have become more pessimistic about the UK's future...
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...type ‘Faces of Science’. Click on the first result, ‘The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences’. Reiss, M. J. (1993) Science Education for a Pluralist Society, Milton Keynes, Open University Press (ISBN 0335157602). Hill, D. (1994) Islamic Science and Engineering (Islamic Surveys), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press (ISBN 0748604553). For...
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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...type of setting, the resources available and the practitioner's views about the place of outdoor activities in the overall development of the child. Activity 5 There are links to two articles below. Article 5 is of a general nature, while Article 6 focuses on school contexts. Select the article on outdoor play that you feel is most appropriate for your setting. Article 5:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...type of sugar is deoxyribose, hence the molecule is known as deoxyribonucleic acid.) The phosphate and the sugar are the same in each nucleotide but the base can differ. There are four different bases in DNA: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. When illustrating a length of DNA we can simplify the name of each base to a single capital letter, so that A=adenine,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...types of speech. And different interpreters listening to the same material may use different strategies. The results from the Geneva group also fit with a wider theme in neuroscience. When fMRI became widely available in 1990s, researchers rushed to identify the brain areas involved in almost every conceivable behaviour (including, yes, sex: several researchers have...
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