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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...becomes an ethical question. Watch the Chair of International Association of Athletics Federations' Ethics Board, Michael Beloff, discussing hyperandrogyny at the International Bar Assocation's Vimeo channel Lindsay Parks Pieper, author of the book Sex Testing, says Semenya's treatment is typical of how the IOC treats people who don't fit into comfortable categories: Once...
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...become more difficult and dangerous. They reported that onshore crop yields of bananas, coconuts, nutmeg and cloves were being affected by higher temperatures and unpredictable changes in the monsoon rain patterns. Storms and tidal surges were becoming more severe, even as rainfall declined. Fishers now had to travel further out to sea yet were still catching less fish....
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...become more institutionalized or institutionally appropriated? Objects of dissensus In a recent paper in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, a consortium of scholars published transnational research on the ways in which historical, political and cultural power relations are associated with emotions and perceptions that people resort to in relation to national flags....
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...becomes a bigger moral issue if we – if we go on developing nuclear power. And one of the main reasons for not developing nuclear power further in my view is what it inflicts on future generations, who we should have a care for. But I don’t think we do because radioactive waste is not top of the agenda in terms of the nuclear debate in this country. What's top of the...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...become when being read to and you may well have had a similar experience yourself, when reading a great book on the beach in your holidays for example. In such instances you can become so immersed in the story and its characters that it can feel like you are wrenched from the world in the story when something drags you back to reality. [This image shows a person in a...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...become a foundational piece of scholarship within feminist musicology. In the first section of the article, Citron contends that for any work to stand a chance of being included in the canon it has to be written, published, and circulated, reach public consciousness through a first performance, remain there through repeat performances, and receive a positive review early...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...become a lead exporter in China’s large apple industry and is China’s largest regional exporter of apple juice. Though much of the restoration work in the Loess Plateau has been successful, some concerns remain. For example, Kathleen Buckingham of the World Resources Institute has raised the issues that the speed and scale of the project was possible only with low...
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...becoming increasingly popular, and there usually is plenty of coffee or tea, too. While learning about various breakfast options, you will practise using regular and irregular verbs in the present tense. You will also learn new vocabulary to help you to talk about food and drink. To help you memorise these new words, you will look at strategies for learning vocabulary and...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs