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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...Health Science courses and qualifications. What is FMRI? [Brain image produced by FMRI [Image: FMRIB Centre]] Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI, works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity – when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood flow...
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Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?
Education & Development

Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?

...health issue*, and it does not need to be cured. Asexuality is also neither abstinence nor celibacy, both of which are conscious behavioural choices that any person of any sexuality may engage in. If a person identifies as Asexual, it simply means that they either do not experience sexual attraction to any person, or they experience it so rarely or only under very...
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The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, sustainable production and consumption, resilient cities, and more equal and inclusive societies. It feels like I end every reflection on development issues with a sense of urgency, but the new report provides stark evidence that urgency is needed. Education must be at the forefront of every agenda. [The Conversation]This...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...health owing to a wide range of natural antibiotic and antiparasitic compounds produced by meadow herbs. The timing of haymaking is a critical part of successful meadow management that is governed by the vagaries of weather and seasons. Modern haymaking has a very different impact on sensitive meadow species, with hay often cut later and machinery allowing large areas to...
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The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...health and climate, it is perhaps useful to consider how we can develop capabilities for the care of our material world and provide new opportunities to decarbonise our product environment through better design and different practices of use. In the last fifty or so years we have seen huge advancements in technology and yet product lifespans, in many cases, have decreased...
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St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

St Lucia reimagined: marketing a Swedish festive icon

...of pure foods in Great Britain’, Discourse, Context and Media, 34, doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100325. Runefelt, L. (2024) ‘A Cheap and Tasty Way to Health: Advertising Coffee Substitutes in Sweden, 1870–1914’ in L.A. O’Hagan and G. Eriksson (eds) Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives. London: Routledge....
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The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times
Society, Politics & Law

The Curious Geography of Weetabix: A Cereal Tale for Our Times

...Health & Wellbeing Company. They obtained the right to do so when the original owners sold up and left for South Africa in the 1930s, where they founded the British & African Cereal Company. As was actually rather common during the empire, the company subsequently expanded to the UK, buying a disused Northamptonshire mill at Burton Latimer to market its product, which put...
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Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump II: America comes off the loser

...health and women’s rights. She noted she had her name on 400 pieces of legislation, and stressed her ability to do hard political work on a bipartisan basis. Clearly she had her own prepared formulas. On many occasions she began her responses to Trump’s comments by saying “much of that is not right”, and repeatedly implored people to fact-check Trump’s...
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