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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...becomes ironic, post-modern pastiche and so on in reuse. I am glad they are carrying on nonetheless - the interest of the genre for women writers and their success in reusing it seems to me to be specifically about taking on and considering as women the archetypal male modes which the Detective represented. Marlowe would say this is a lot of weak talk, I guess. Tom...
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Article 10 mins
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...become deranged. On Father’s Day in 2008, for example, a ”hostile, feral turkey” chased two cops onto their patrol car. A man who had raised the unfortunate Tom tried to help his pet when the officers shot and killed the terrorist turkey. Later, neighbors and a UPS delivery person corroborated the police view that Tom was indeed violent, and there was much concern...
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Article 5 mins
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...become a powerful resource for modern forensic science, and have even allowed old, unsolved cases to be reviewed with fresh evidence. When a person dies their DNA will begin to degrade, but this can take a long time. In fact, some tissues can provide DNA samples even after a body has been buried for some time. Bone and dental pulp, for example, are sometimes used as a...
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Article 10 mins
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...become increasingly rare, but a very few reach out even beyond the Moon’s orbit and are lost to Earth. The connected environment A Perfect Planet emphasises how different elements of our environment are interconnected. The atmosphere responds to varying heating by sunlight, driving movement. These motions in the troposphere are what we experience as wind. The oceans...
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Article 20 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...become one of the first gay men in the public eye to share that he was HIV positive and later died due to complications from illness. Stormé DeLarverie 24 December 1920 – 24 May 2014 It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn’t no damn riot. Stormé DeLarverie was a lifelong LGBT activist and drag performer who played an...
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Article 20 mins
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...becomes a string. Hence, the computer will print the name literally, instead of printing the value stored in the variable. To sum up, "result", "7", result and 7 are different things: the first two are strings (literal text), the third is a variable, and the last is a number. Learning from mistakes is always helpful, so for this and the remaining programs in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...student Freya wise is investigating the impact of embodied carbon for reducing carbon from heritage buildings...Embodied carbon is a very important source of carbon emissions, especially in the construction industry. But in practise most people aren’t really aware of it and it is rarely measured in construction or renovation projects. This article explores three reasons...
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Article 10 mins
‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...student takeover of Hetherington House, and the 2017 work-in at the Bi-Fab yard in Fife. Understanding the occupations in Greenock, Cumbernauld and Bathgate can provide crucial lessons for worker and social movements today. Rescuing Women’s Factory Occupations from Obscurity These occupations have been marginalised in our knowledge and understandings of the period, of...
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Article 10 mins