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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...Research Centre at Griffith University. In the piece, which also screened at Science in the Cinema, a heart perfusion system was used to reanimate a pair of fresh pig hearts during live performances. The work explored organ transplantation and the ambiguous philosophical thresholds between bodies, life and death, echoing many of the themes raised by Blade Runner. The...
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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...research with 99 home-educating families. Children had originally enrolled at school and been expected to remain in mainstream formal education. For example, one parent ‘assumed they would go down the same route as me and go to school and then maybe uni.’ Another believed ‘they would be supported as an individual throughout the mainstream education that we thought...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...children reading with their teacher] In England, where reading for pleasure is mandated (DfE, 2013), the term is often used interchangeably with ‘reading for enjoyment’ or developing a ‘love of reading’. Such reading can involve any kind of text: novels, magazines, poetry, comics or non-fiction for example, in electronic as well as in printed form. It can take...
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Sickle cell disease: a lethal advantage
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sickle cell disease: a lethal advantage

...children are born with the illness. Sickle cell and the gene What is sickle cell disease? And if it cannot be caught or contracted, who is at risk and what are their chances of inheriting it? Slave ships and sickle cells Take a look at some myths surrounding the disease, and discover how genetics can explain the mysteries. Dr Anthony Allison also discusses research he...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...children have been well researched in the psychological and sociological disciplines. Those who live and work with children can draw on a wide spread of knowledge for assessing and meeting children’s needs across a range of areas: physical and developmental needs cognitive and learning needs social and environmental needs emotional and affectional needs behavioural...
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What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...Research Institute International, Kyoto and Centre of Information and Neural Networks, Osaka, led the research: "In effect, the features of the memory that were previously tuned to predict the painful shock, were now being re-programmed to predict something positive instead." The team then tested what happened when they showed the volunteers the pictures previously...
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Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice in the School of Management. Rupesh has worked as a participatory development practitioner and community educator, designing and managing a range of international and local projects in the UK, India, Argentina and Nigeria. In describing himself, Rupesh imagines a rich picture with a cartoon of body in a dynamic yoga...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...children grow up, our research shows that they are encouraged to increasingly distance themselves from other animals and to perceive humans as radically different and superior. Debra Merskin calls this ‘a reification of dis-identification with animals’ (2018, p.73). We saw this process plainly laid out in the famous toy shop Hamleys, in London (Cole & Stewart, 2014)....
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