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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...course of the year. It turned out that, within the school year, these five randomly selected kids achieved the greatest gains in academic performance in the class. Obvious evidence for a Pygmalion effect! Ethical experimental research designs to investigate the Golem effect are much more difficult to come up with (Babad, Inbar and Rosenthal circumvented the ethical...
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Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?
Money & Business

Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?

...course, the rule of law can improve in Europe so that financial investors feel equally well protected in Paris or Frankfurt. But this process will take years, perhaps decades. In terms of education, markets increasingly require a sophisticated understanding of economics and finance, as well as in-depth knowledge of the legal architecture underlying financial services....
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Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
History & The Arts

Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen

...is to say that this is a false dichotomy. To quote another of Cohen’s songs of anguished paternity, ‘I’d like to pretend that my father was wrong,/but you don’t want to lie, not to the young’. This is exactly why Cohen’s songs continue to move within his listeners: because they don’t lie about the things that matter. Explore poetry in these free courses...
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How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?
Society, Politics & Law

How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?

...course again, ending up in an almost prophetic vein with a string of new metaphors: “now arrives the hour of action”, “we stand at the birth of new millennium”, “a new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions”. Trace the progression of these central metaphors and you see an interesting progression. First come the metaphors of...
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Will burnt food give you cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will burnt food give you cancer?

...course, your food may not be as tasty, since grilling, baking or toasting produce a lot of molecules that enhance flavour. But if you have a healthy diet with lots of fruit, vegetables and whole grain food, none of which contain acrylamide, things are easier. It is all a question of proportion.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation....
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Yes, we still need International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Yes, we still need International Women's Day

...course, went on to win that election. So what now? How do we explain these events to our children – both boys and girls? How do we deal with the disappointment of the next generation when their expectations of gender equity are not met? What we have seen in recent times is a generation of women who have grown to expect equality – to be allowed to succeed academically,...
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Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...course, she would face a difficult electorate, fractious at the cost of a Brexit that may well have delivered on little of its promises. Calling an election now then, when the going still looks good, is May’s best chance of ever becoming an elected prime minister. In that circumstance she has succumbed to vanity, as all politicians do. Britons might all, quite...
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How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...course, in all sorts of ways extraordinary. In a little over a year, the 39-year-old former finance minister has gone from being a wannabe to the future tenant of the Elysée Palace. He struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent, the enormity of his achievement needs to be...
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