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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...artificial ‘eggs’ are neatly sliced onto a conveyor belt from a sausage-shaped raw material, fed into the machine by a human worker wearing a comical egg-shaped safety helmet. Negative consumer suspicions of McDonalds’s products being ‘unnatural’ are skilfully defused, with hens themselves taking centre stage. [Young lambs] Two young lambs in a field Taking the...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...intelligent, handsome boys should avoid eating sausages before having sex. The origins of the sausage lie, then, in the very origins of human cookery yet retain currency as a barometer of cultural and political activity. Its independent emergence in different parts of the world reminds us that human creativity itself did not emerge from a single place such as the Fertile...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...intelligence and effective communications. I'm a carer for an autistic 25 year old recently diagnosed. I wanted to help understand her and help her understand herself too. You may have saved her life. …I feel empowered to support people more confidently through my work. Before Covid I didn't have the time to do a course this in depth … this course is amazing and I get...
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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...intelligent and the figures good. III With such a journal as the Manchester Guardian still keeping its high rank among English newspapers, there cannot be question of the journalistic sort of thinking in the place. Of the sort that comes to its effect in literature, such as, say, Mrs. Gaskell's novels, there may also still be as much as ever; and I will not hazard my safe...
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Article 10 mins
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...intelligence from ‘police, probation, prisons and other experts to identify Londoners who are gang members’ (Bentham, 2014, p. 2). The problem here relates to the reliance upon criminal records and intelligence from justice sector agencies including the police to identify gang members. Particularly, as the now standard definition of the ‘street gang’ –...
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Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...artificial ponds and stocked each with a population of guppies derived from several different localities in Trinidad. At this stage, guppies were the only fish in the ponds. There was considerable variation among males in the number of their spots, but the mean number of spots per male across all the populations at the start of the experiment (time=0 months) was 10...
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Make a meadow, whatever the scale and the diversity of meadows
Nature & Environment

Make a meadow, whatever the scale and the diversity of meadows

...artificially to boost growth and became popular in the 18th century, but have now largely fallen out of use. They were tended by someone called a “drowner” who regulated a complex system of channels and sluices. The time and trouble devoted to producing hay at that time illustrate how valuable the crop was. Only a handful of working water meadows still survive in...
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The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...artificial lighting) melatonin production is depressed via links with the visual system. This effect 'locks us in' to the natural twenty four hour day. There have been experiments performed where people have been cut off from knowledge of the true passage of time, and denied access to daylight - in one case this was done in a pot-hole. The people still showed a cycle in...
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