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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...research activity in Activity 5 now to find out. [Detail from a woodcut depicting ancient herbalists and scholars.] Figure 4 Herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore ‘Herophilus and Erasistratus’ Activity 5 Go online and see what other definitions of health you can find, paying particular attention to their origins. Are they written by patients or doctors? Do they...
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...researchers and scholars, the Regiam Majestatem had significant influence on the development of the Scottish legal system. Originally written by hand, the first royal licence for its printing was issued by James IV (1488–1513) in 1507. This helps illustrate the importance placed upon it. (The first Act of Parliament was printed in 1542). The development of the printing...
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...Research has overwhelmingly concluded that bilingualism per se does not have any negative effects on cognition. In fact the opposite increasingly appears to be the case: that high levels of bilingualism have accelerating effects on children’s cognitive development.’...Cànan nan Gàidheal: 4.1.2 Ag ionnsachadh chànanan eile - Tha daoine a bha fileanta ann an dà...
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...research effort to produce vaccines which would induce antibodies against the spike protein. The production and distribution of millions of doses of vaccine followed on rapidly, and this required equally heroic efforts in biotechnology and logistics. Understanding how the immune system protects against viruses and how this knowledge can be applied to vaccine development...
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...Research Establishment was located) to London...Session 2: How have citizens mobilised against nuclear weapons?: 2 The Euromissile Crisis and anti-nuclear activism in the UK in the early 1980s - A second and even larger wave of anti-nuclear activism emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. In Western Europe, this was chiefly triggered by the 1979 decision...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Research. Bowden has opposed anti-terrorist legislation, since it was hurried through by the UK government after the events of September 11th. But why does he oppose it? Casper Bowden Part 11 of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act deals with powers which can compel Internet providers, and in fact, potentially any Internet user, to stockpile traffic data, on their...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Research Institute. Irwin, D. (1997) Neoclassicism, London, Phaidon. Langdon, H. (1998) Caravaggio: A Life, London, Chatto & Windus. Lee, R. (1967) Ut Pictura Poesis: The Humanistic Theory of Painting, New York, W.W. Norton. Levy, E. (2004) Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque, Berkeley, CA and London, University of California Press. Lichtenstein, J. (2008) The Blind Spot:...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...research shows that to meet global emissions reduction targets, rich people across the world – but especially those in the Global North – must radically reduce their footprints, while to reduce inequality, the half of the population in the poorest parts of the Global South should be allowed to increase theirs. [Described image] Figure 7 Consumption-based CO2e...