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Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...children, you’re interpreting it negatively. Dr Terry O’Sullivan It’s a fascinating area, but it’s an area as I said, that can lead to some quite sharp controversy, because at the end of the day what people are saying is that consumers are being sold an empty image and having to pay more for it, rather than just being sold a basic rational product or commodity....
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Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...children and grown-ups alike. The festival marks the arrival of spring and the end of winter as the dry tropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent start to warm up. Many flowering trees start to blossom around this time of the year: the Indian laburnum trees (Cassia fistula) with their golden yellow blossoms; the Pride of India trees (Lagerstroemia speciosa) with their...
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Can you resist zombification?
History & The Arts

Can you resist zombification?

...children disguised as zombies will knock on your door this Halloween. Both vampires and zombies are portrayed as mysterious members of a proliferating gang of predators against humanity. This may be true to legends about vampires but traditional zombies are quite different. Zombie traditions originated in Haiti during the centuries of slavery. They are part of Vodou, a...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...children (6%) are living with obesity in Northern Ireland. A report that examines a whole systems approach to obesity prevention in Northern Ireland was published in 2023. The report comes as the Department of Health prepares to draft a new obesity prevention strategy in 2024 to replace its predecessor, ‘A Fitter Future for All 2012-22’. We are unique However,...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...research balloons are built to be able to fly in the stratosphere in the thin air. Most of the sky would already be dark, rather than blue, for a passenger in such an aircraft. The top of the stratosphere lies at about 50 km altitude. Although there are more rarefied atmospheric layers above, for practical purposes the environment is already much more like ‘space’ by...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...research student Zoe Morland...The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this, its formation mechanism is still a mystery. Transcript Astronomy & Planetary Science The Formation of the Moon Zoe Morland: Have you wondered how the Moon was made? The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this,...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...children of such bloodthirsty themes as indication of their resonance with children’s unconscious feelings. The third core of Freud’s ideas focuses on the idea of inner psychic conflict or psychodynamics. Freud saw this as taking threefold form. There is the ‘it’ (usually called the id though Freud himself never used that term) which is our core biological...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some are involved functionally and laterally like the partners in a business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which...
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