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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...changed quality in awareness; sensing values, ideas about good and evil or what matters; sensing mystery, wonder and awe; sensing meaning or insight or connectedness. This ties in closely with humanistic concepts of spirituality which embrace: 'aspirations, moral sensibility, creativity, love and friendship, response to natural and human beauty, scientific and artistic...
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DIY: Generate your own electricity
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Generate your own electricity

...be fitted to control the current, so that the alternator’s output voltage continues to match the voltage of the vehicle’s battery as the engine speed changes. A dynamo on a bicycle, that produces electricity as you cycle, is another example of a generator. Its basic design is just the same as the home-made generator described above. [a bicycle dynamo] a bicycle dynamo...
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Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...changes into a harmful, damaged version of the protein that can no longer stabilise the brain, and brain cells will lose their ability to function (McSweeney, 2022). This damaged tau protein kills brain cells that are needed for thinking and regulating emotions (McMinn, 2023). Sub-concussions in football Show descriptionA photograph of an injured player on a football...
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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...change as designers collaborate with ecologists and others creating green spaces and habitats for BND. [Brown wooden house for insects surrounded by green plants’]Brown wooden house for insects surrounded by green plants These are but a few ways that living systems design can help us think and act differently about food and shelter, and how we need to meet basic needs...
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Building a crystal radio set
Science, Maths & Technology

Building a crystal radio set

...changing taps on the coil. In which case, taps every five turns would be useful. Detector The purpose of the detector is to recover the audio signal (waveform) from the radio frequency signal. Early crystal sets used an adjustable ‘cats whisker’ detector, but a germanium or Schottky diode is now used, examples are OA90, OA91, BAT81, BAT85, 1N34, 1N5711. Any one of...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...change the world. Today, neural nets are used for an incredible range of tasks. They identify images, speech and music, they translate between languages, recognise handwriting and identify trends in social media feeds. Neural nets buy and sell stocks and shares, identify gene sequences that lead to disease, drive vehicles, filter spam email, monitor computers for...
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The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...is thought that this effect may not come from changes in the dilation of blood vessels but may originate in the brain itself. [The Conversation] All in all, alcohol has multiple effects on your mind and brain. If you do decide to have a drink, for whatever reason, do so with knowledge. This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article ....
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...changing.” These findings present a different interpretation to participation which perhaps relates more closely to a desire to escape the confines and restriction of current society. Participation can facilitate more positive psychological experiences and allow people to experience freedom and re-connect with nature (Brymer and Schweitzer, 2013). This need for freedom...
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