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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...manage Sarah’s medication’ (Inquest, 2017). It was known that Sarah had been exhibiting psychotic disorder, bipolar, schizophrenia and bulimia, yet monitoring had been reduced, which gave her the opportunity to strangle herself in her cell. She spent her final days alone in a dirty cell without access to contact with her family. The tragic sequence of events that led...
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Article 15 mins
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...managed on an annual basis…'. Yes, the UK fleet has reciprocal access to EU waters, but they are far more reliant on our waters than we are on theirs – EU vessels fish six times more in UK waters than we fish in the “At the end of the six years, how does the government envisage us claiming a fairer share of the catches in our own waters without triggering punishment...
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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...introduction of ether as an anaesthetic eliminated the pain. Such was its impact that the next hundred years became known as ‘the century of the surgeon’. Yet, even in the 21st century, a neurosurgeon removing a tumour still relies largely on just his eyes and touch to guide him. The differences between cancerous and normal cells are often so minimal that they are...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Introduction T. A. Brown (Nelson Thornes, 1995), ISBN: 0748740708 Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis T. A. Brown (Blackwell Science (UK), 2001), ISBN: 063205901X The Human Cloning Debate 2nd Edition Glenn McGee (Berkeley Hills Books, 2000), ISBN: 1893163121 The Ethics of Human Cloning Leon Kass, Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson (American Enterprise Institute Press), ISBN:...
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Article 30 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...introduction or the preservation of the world’s largest venomous snake would go down? And it’s a testament, both to Romulus and to the people of India, that India has some of its natural history left and they are prepared to put up with leopards and tigers and elephants and king cobras, which do occasionally kill people. But I think that that is the corollary,...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...Introduction - When thinking about waves you may first think of ocean waves. These are a great example of a wave as they are regular, repeating movements of water and a wave may be defined as a periodic, or regularly repeating, disturbance that transports energy from one place to another. In this short course you will discover the difference between transverse and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...Introduction - The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how the UK Reading Experience Database (RED) can be used in a study of the reading habits of a writer, and how this information can be used in a literary study of that writer’s own writing. To this end we will be focussing on the reading experiences of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee. This course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...Introduction - Religions are internally diverse; they encompass all aspects of human culture and behaviour; they are dynamic and changing. Harvard University professor, Diane Moore, has emphasised that we need to be aware of these three qualities in order to help us to understand religion (Religion and Public Life, 2022). There is a consensus in Islamic legal scholarship...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr