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Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...Project Gutenberg and elsewhere for free. And that Miss Agatha Christie would probably have considered a crime as well. Note: I linked to my Sayers and arsenic piece, from the first round of Science of Mysteries, in the post. If you are curious about the rest of that package, Jennifer’s posts can be found here and here. Ann’s is here. They are brilliant, of course....
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...project tiger in 1973. But it comes with its own set of problems. India’s 380+ people per square km (compared to 34 in the U.S., 145 in China, 24 in Brazil) live alongside almost two-thirds of the world’s tigers and Asian elephants. So a western conservation model may not be the solution. Only five per cent of the landmass is ‘protected’ for wildlife, but wild...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...project received ethics approval, we formalised what we were already doing. We transcribed relevant voice notes and developed intentional reflections, guided by the same prompts we used with our participants. We also conducted what we called a bilateral focus group, interviewing each other using the same questions posed to the mothers in our study. These reflections...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...project to their children both a conscious and unconscious value-coded repertoire of white sanctioned behaviours that psychosocially regulates and controls her Black child. Criminalisation and policing – do Black Lives Matter? Contemporary UK statistics evidence the use of restraint found to be more prevalent in cases of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people who have...
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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...projected to have it by 2030 4.4 million girls are at risk of being impacted by FGM annually. FGM is practised in at least 92 countries. It is largely prevalent in over 30 African countries (over 144 million cases), parts of the Middle East (6 million cases), Asia (over 80million cases) and practised in smaller numbers in certain indigenous communities in Latin American...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...introduction to the Irish Gothic), Irish writers took this tradition in new directions in the twentieth century. They responded to the seismic changes associated with modernity, from rising nationalism to new developments in psychology. The international upheaval of two world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political...
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Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...Introduction - For many centuries, ancient Egypt was seen as the source of wisdom and knowledge, about mathematics as well as other things. There was a long classical Greek tradition to this effect, and in later centuries the indecipherability of the hieroglyphs did nothing to dispel this belief. But since the early nineteenth century, when the deciphering of the Rosetta...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...Project Tamsin Edwards interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer TE: = Tamsin Edwards, Open University RH: Tell us about yourself and your blog. TE: My name’s Tamsin Edwards. I’m a lecturer at the Open University in Environmental Sciences, and I have a blog run by the website PLOS called All Models are Wrong, and that’s named after a fairly famous quote within...
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