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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...history. So in the long run we could be talking about 6 degrees warming for a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide level. RH: That would be extremely alarming. How can we come to terms with all these different numbers over these different timescales and so many uncertainties? How can we deal with this as a species? TL: Well actually as a species I think we’re...
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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...history by winning her country’s first-ever Olympic medal — and a gold one, no less. But a BBC commentator called the final between two world-champion athletes a “catfight.” Read at HuffPo: Rio Olympics Just Started And There's Enough Sexist Garbage For A Dumpster Fire Sexism in the pool And that's the women who get to compete. The IOC won't even let female...
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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...family, or your own personal experience. Awareness has not always been widespread, however, and in some countries, there is no recognition or acceptance of this condition. The following section illustrates the dyslexia journey in the UK...Week 1: Defining dyslexia: 1.1 Disability rights movement - The 1960s was a period of profound social change during which individuals...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...History teacher. And the reason why they were my favourite teachers was because they took the time to have a conversation with me on my level. I just felt like they had recognised a potential within me and wanted to help me to draw it out of myself. So they weren’t saying ‘you need to be this, you have to be that, you should be this,’ they were saying ‘you know...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...families. Using PARP inhibitor drugs in cancer cells that already lack BRCA1 or 2 knocks out their back-up repair system, leaving them fatally damaged. Cancer Research UK-funded scientists played a crucial role in the early development of PARP inhibitors, and the first of them, olaparib (Lynparza), has now been licensed for use within the EU for women with a certain type...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” This treaty, to which the United Kingdom is a signatory, could not be clearer that we recognise an inherent dignity within human beings and commit to ensuring that all human beings, regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other considerations are entitled to be treated with dignity. What this means in...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...family in the most expensive restaurant in Saint Petersburg because he thought it was the last place the police would look for him. He led a very very interesting life. AM: He certainly did by the sounds of it. So, I mean, there are so many things here going on but just really to bring it back to this seemingly sharp distinction as well between Kropotkin, the army...
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The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...family members arriving at the warehouse to offer congratulations before they went to a local social club to spread the news to a few of the workers they knew would be there. On 18 March, production resumed on a reduced scale, with 92 workers returning to the site to work for Modewear Ltd, with the hope and expectation that employment would grow once production was...
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