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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...work out so well in many instances. But it’s definitely – you see that the teen bedroom is kind of portrayed as a reflection of what the middle class hopes their children turns out to be. And of course the realities are always a bit muddier than that but these are ideals anyway that people could strive for. Laurie Taylor: And you interestingly say that what impels or...
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...worked for the BBC, ABC and independent companies across a career that started in the 1980’s. Mary has two science degrees from Manchester and Bristol universities. She published her first book “John Muir – The Scotsman who Saved America’s Wild Places” in 2015 and is a feature writer for The Tablet. She is currently walking 500 miles across Britain and Ireland...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves. Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation; it is reading that children do for themselves at their own pace, with whom they choose and in their own way. Reading for pleasure is more...
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Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...worked out mathematically? When you roll a die – assuming it’s fair – it’s equally likely to land on any of its six sides. And because there are six sides, your chance of throwing a six is one in six, or a sixth. Of course, that’s exactly the same as your chance of getting anything else, a one, two, three, four or five, because the die is fair. That may feel a...
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How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...working with the PMA2020 and will integrate the data into national monitoring and evaluation systems. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director and under-secretary-general of the United Nations, tells SciDev.Net that governments and all partners in reproductive health need to provide information and access to voluntary family planning to all people of reproductive age....
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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...working in the area when the idea for an explanatory video came up. He explained the importance of these hand signs: While many visitors quickly learn the standard “what now?” sign, it is easy to miss the dozens of diverse hand signals being subtly exchanged in conversation. As in all languages, some elements are traditional and others are recent innovations… hand...
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When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...works pretty well in this case, because we have only three companies, and Green’s slope is gentle enough that it doesn’t distort our view of Blue. If, however, we had more companies to track, it’s a good bet that at least one of them would look worse than it is because of the tilted baseline problem. The solution to this problem is to avoid the sexy stacked area...
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How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...this sort of vegetation,” he points out. Lucíola Lannes, also a biologist, at the engineering faculty of São Paulo State University in Brazil, says: “the work shows that carbon dioxide mitigation policies that favour fire suppressions cannot be a priority conservation policy in El Cerrado”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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