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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...physical contact is not possible. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the gaps between families regarding the access to physical educational resources and the educational support children get in using the resources. This gap is also apparent for children during illness, war conflict or who have parents in prison. The digital reading format lends itself to the online...
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Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...physics, the fusion process powering stars, right the way up to the cosmology of the Big Bang Theory which gives us an understanding of where everything came from. It also provides an unprecedented vehicle for teaching a huge number of topics in the areas of physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, geology, engineering and electronics. However, in my humble opinion, the...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...physical replicas of human skeletal remains. This additional haptic processing of traumatic evidence provides a more personal, intimate, and potentially traumatic engagement with victims as jurors can directly touch victim injuries. Prior trauma amongst individual jurors may be raked to the surface as they are forced to confront triggering content in court, adding an...
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Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...physical stimulation. Prisoners often take drugs to alleviate physical or emotional pain. Drugs can become “chemical comforts” to deal with loneliness, trauma, isolation or alienation. It’s not just about hedonism. Imprisonment is highly stressful and taking drugs can become a crucial coping mechanism to get through hard times and the mundane daily monotony of...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...physical intimacies of hugging were not possible. This Eid Mubarak digital card, designed by Thanu, herself a Sinhalese Buddhist, offers warm greetings and best wishes to her Muslim friends with wry humour. She coveys a sense of solidarity and loss of a sense of community. Thanu stresses the vital importance of simple, every day acts of solidarity with neighbours that...
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...physicality is limited is demonstrated by the rarity of raw physical writing. Most novelists don’t explore the animalistic elements of our being in much depth. When we write about eating and drinking, we focus on the food and the wine, not the act of chewing and swallowing. The delineation of everyday living doesn’t usually include trips to the loo – though in my...
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The rise of the Roses
Health, Sports & Psychology

The rise of the Roses

...physical restraint’. Netball was viewed as more suitable for girls as it was graceful rather than powerful and grew in popularity throughout the 20th century, largely in British Commonwealth countries. Although viewed by many as conforming to a feminine ideal, netball has predominately remained a sport that is regulated and governed by women, rendering it as a vehicle...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...physical health, only becomes common as recently as the early nineteenth century. We can see it in Jane Austen novels. Fanny in Mansfield Park is forever “knocked up” on the sofa as the result of a good walk, but exercise is mostly a pastime for the daughters of gentry, for whom the competition inherent in sport would not be appropriately gendered behaviour. Austen...
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