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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...becomes clearer when you work out its weight as a percentage of the mother’s weight. But to compare ‘like with like’ you first need to express each measurement in the same units, in this case grams (g). 8 kg is equivalent to (8 × 1000) grams = 8000 g, so 0.5 g as a percentage of 8000 g is (0.5/8000) × 100. This calculation comes to a little over 0.006% –...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...becomes more administratively organised and Bailey follows the action off the sporting field into the Committee room. He focuses on the inevitable progression toward a united Paralympic movement, and argues that the dominance of individuals such as Guttmann, rather than uniting, divided the disabled sporting groups, which caused problems in the initial stages of...
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...student. She states that “yeah it’s definitely the best job I’ve had in terms of like, just being able to take a day off for my brain, or not do it for a while to focus on uni work.” However, when I asked about the main issues with doing sex work Carmen discussed not being able to get access to sick pay or other rights you would expect in employment. There is also...
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...become part of the routine as wearing as the original dispute or disappointment. In fact, a quick scan of newspaper cuttings from the last 35 years shows that there hasn't been a winter without someone, somewhere being discontented since the 1970s. But don't take our word for it - here's a quick run through the decades with just a sample of the discontents: 1980 Margaret...
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...become infinitely indifferent to it. At this time he desired that I should write, not so much with the idea that I could produce any thing worthy of notice, but that he might himself judge how far I possessed the promise of better things hereafter. Still I did nothing. Travelling, and the cares of a family, occupied my time; and study, in the way of reading, or improving...
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...becoming Governor of California is probably the biggest recent direct democracy event. Can the people be wrong? Should they be trusted? Many argue that, for example, capital punishment would be favoured by a majority if there was a vote in the UK, but that it would still be the wrong thing to do. Crime detection and conviction are not perfect – what if innocent people...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...students who wouldn’t take the risk of going to training sessions due to fear of being attacked for being in the ‘wrong’ postcode. However, their white counterparts had no such issues because their mum, dad or grandparents were able to chaperone them to the sessions. Growing up in the UK in the 70s I cannot pinpoint what inspired me to participate in sport. It was...
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...students were working, as you see. And my brother-- this is a piece of leverage now. Before that, this-- that wasn’t like that. And my brother and Nishu-- and then he was working on the road the previous day on the 5th. But on the 6th, he was not. Then he could survive. On the 6th, over 323, I heard, students from his school, first-year students, were working. Nobody...