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Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...course, as with any community - particularly one built around passion - there are also rifts and schisms, personal and intellectual debates and clashes. [Three young women dressed in Teen Titan costumes for cosplay. ] Teen Titans cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Another form of youth-driven media has...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same thing tomorrow. It really...
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The Z Files: Jon Chase
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Jon Chase

...course you don’t just communicate in normal words you rap. Jon Chase Yeah I rap about it. “Some of the biggest questions that’s ever been asked, do you know where life’s going, can you tell where it starts? We’ve been on earth many years and we’re still producing answers, as time passes collective knowledge advances.” Benjamin Zephaniah Is there an old...
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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the town has increased by 3.6°C and there are 40 fewer freezing...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...course. Politics tends to use simple stories which reduce the problems of the world into clear-cut struggles between good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Over the last decade, this idea somehow began to get picked up as much by the political right as those on the left. In the late 2010s, it became a mantra for populist agitators, with the Alt-Right commentator...
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Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...course of action. An obvious example is the story, referred to repeatedly in the Odyssey, of how Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief in the Trojan War, returned home after the War and was immediately murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus, and how in due course Agamemnon's murder was avenged by his son Orestes. Odysseus, too, is on his way home...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...course of great general interest, because whatever else we do, we all live in this psycho social world. And we, all of us (I think) also suffer from a good deal of semantic pollution - misplaced ideas - many of which have got carried over by illicit extension from the natural sciences. So the end of the spectrum that concerns me, I think, really concerns us all. World...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from...
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