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What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...think there is an irreconcilable tension between providing information with the aim of enabling people to make an informed choice, and telling people what they should do. Rather than trying to do both in a single announcement, perhaps future public health communications should clearly separate these two processes. Explaining a 1% lifetime risk I got a surprising amount of...
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Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit
Science, Maths & Technology

Bioinformatics: a new asset in the Disease Detectives toolkit

...think about this is to imagine items in a supermarket. Each item has a unique barcode that tells the till exactly what it is. In a similar way, each species has short stretches of DNA that work like a barcode. If we can read that DNA barcode, we can match it to a database and find out which species it belongs to. This short region of DNA is often called a barcode region....
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East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...by his memories of his mother as can be seen in many of his storylines. It was a great pleasure to hear the films talked about and think about some of the themes and the making of what have been so important to my daughter and myself, allowing us to maintain our connection to our cultural heritage and being. Arigato gozaimashita, Dr Denison. (Very respectful thank you!)...
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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...think I’m a bad parent? What if my baby is taken away? What if my partner leaves? This fear can keep people silent at the very moment they need support the most. Mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the first two years after birth are far more common than many realise. The Royal College of Midwifery (2024) suggests that around one in four mothers experience...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...think so and, naturally, warned that the country was about to have a winter of discontent. 1988 Obviously, nations in the Southern Hemisphere experience their winter of discontents at the other end of the year to those in the Northern. Hence, it was still summer in the UK when the FT was describing New Zealand's job losses across all key industries, rising racial tensions...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...think tank, Wales Governance Centre, discusses the potential implications and opportunities for Wales post-Brexit with Dr Jo Hunt and Dr Rachel Minto of Cardiff University. Created as part of Brexit Hub on OpenLearn. Superficially at least, there are a lot of similarities between popular portrayals of the national past in Wales and Scotland. In both countries, the rise of...
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...thinking: double consciousness: African Americans can see society both through their own experience, and understand how white people see it differently; and the Veil: it’s as if a veil hangs between African Americans and a full life, through which they can dimly see others aspiring and achieving as they try to do. Here is the example in this quote: After the Egyptian...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...think strategically,” says paediatrician Dimitri Christakis, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. “If your child has 12 hours awake and two of those are spent eating, how will you allocate the rest of the time?” The problem is that tablets are extremely appealing to children and adults...
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