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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

...become. By the time it reaches the sea, any gold is in the form of very small specks or grains. You’re more likely to find gold deposits on the inside of bends in a river, where the water flows less quickly. As the water slows down, the heavy gold particles fall through the gravel on the riverbed, and work their way down through the soil underneath, eventually settling...
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Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...becoming a major issue. Many people can struggle to notice in themselves when their mental health problems are more severe. This might seem surprising, but because a person can be suffering over a long period of time, their symptoms may not initially have a dramatic impact. In addition to this, even when mental health problems can be debilitating, a person may still feel...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...becoming too mentally or physically unwell to attend school, and the same number reported that at least one child had been excluded. A slightly higher proportion considered the move to home education had been entirely involuntary, at least in the early stages, reflecting reports from Ofsted. Concerns such as those raised by ISPEA are that many families are left without...
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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?

...becoming aware of the risk of sub-concussions and that cumulative sub-concussions are the cause of CTE rather than concussions (New York Times, 2023). What are sub-concussions? Show descriptionA set of eight scans of the brain, taken from different angles Sub-concussions are brain injuries caused by low-force impacts that damage the brain without causing any of the...
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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?

...become safer the rise in the number of high-risk activities has occurred as a means of compensation? People want more from life and, as Barlow et al (2015) recognises, often crave life in a pure, simple and sharp form. Extreme sports allow people a return to nature, an antidote to the over-sanitised World we live, whether riding the waves or scaling a rock face these...
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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read ‘Vietnam.’ It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.” He angered crucial allies. King and President Lyndon Johnson, for example, had been allies in achieving significant legislative victories in 1964 and 1965. Johnson’s “Great Society” launched a series of initiatives...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...become increasingly clearer, especially with studies on climate change – human management of the environment is shaping the world around us. Our environmental challenges Our world is facing major environmental challenges, including deforestation, pollution, loss of biodiversity and the chaos of climate shocks. The alarm has been raised and many scientists, educators and...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...becomes possible to identify a focus for positive forms of Black leadership in the future...Week 1: Understanding power and its effects: 2.1 Power over movement - Crucial to a person’s freedom is how easy or otherwise it is to move around space. Being able to move easily and affordably creates options for work and leisure. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that transport...
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