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Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15
Digital & Computing

Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15

...changes to whom or what society deems credible sources of information have been a feature of the modern age. Authors in the field of the sociology of knowledge have written for decades about the struggles of particular fields of knowledge to gain credibility. Some have been more successful than others. What makes today’s realignment different is the ways in which...
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Support for dyslexic language students through feedback
Education & Development

Support for dyslexic language students through feedback

...changes, colour-coded highlighting of particular errors and correction of individual errors in brackets, using comment boxes. Students with dyslexia are likely to repeat some mistakes even after being corrected many times. Teachers should continue to correct them, but it is important not to lose patience and provide constructive feedback which will help the student to...
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Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?

...changed hands between the parties in 2017. That said, the numbers of marginal seats increased in 2017. There are now 11 “hyper-marginal” seats, which were won with majorities of fewer than 100 votes. The Conservatives could in fact have won an overall majority if they had gained a further 533 votes in the nine most marginal seats, such are the narrow margins that...
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...changes can have a big impact on the amount of plastic we use on a day-to-day basis and how much gets into the environment. 1. Reduce your own plastic use. In the UK we use over 35 million plastic bottles every day, but if you carry a reusable bottle or cup with you we can reduce this number. Say no to single-use plastic plastic straws, cutlery and shopping bags will also...
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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...changed during a person’s lifetime. These variants can span small regions of DNA and can be from just one DNA base to much larger regions, hundreds of bases. Certain sequences are more common in certain populations, which sometimes gives us information about increased risks of particular diseases within that population. For example in Caucasian (White) populations there...
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Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity

...change depending on the relative motion of the source and the observer. As a result of these principles, Einstein deduced that there is no fixed frame of reference in the universe. Everything is moving relative to everything else, hence Einstein’s theory of relativity. It is known as special relativity because it applies only to special cases: frames of reference in...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...changed the nature of healthcare for older people in part responding to their dire medical neglect within the NHS hospital system and in part to government and management pressure to improve bed occupancy figures. Geriatric medicine began to offer a career trajectory and eventually became what it is today, the second largest specialty with about 1,514 specialists. The...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...change. [Female college student studying in the library] The numbers tell a clear story. Across both academic years we studied (2019/20 and 2020/21), ethnic minority students had consistently lower pass and completion rates than their white peers. For example, in the module TM111, the pass rate for ethnic minority students was over 9 percentage points lower than for...
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