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Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...children: William (1805); sadly, another William (1806); John (1808); Ann (1809); and Charlot (1812). Sarah noted that the book had been given to her by her aunt, who lived in Curry Rivel, a mere ten miles from Dowlish Wake. Fackerell was not the only person to use a book about making babies to record a family’s births. In 1832, Edward Wiett went to court in Tennessee...
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...children was the main reason why they stopped fighting or did not engage in it in the first place. Read: Why most Syrian men are not joining ISIS What of young men in Europe? There are calls for increased efforts to counter the effects of "self-radicalisation". Griffith University's Keiran Hardy points out that the UK's Prevent program hasn't been a total success:...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...words like environment and global warming and climate change, so that people feel able to do it and feel that it relates to them. Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? Pessimistic is… I don’t like the word pessimistic actually because you all feel that you want to do something about the world or leave something to your children or not leave the world in such a mess....
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...words like environment and global warming and climate change, so that people feel able to do it and feel that it relates to them. Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? I don’t like the word pessimistic actually because you all feel that you want to do something about the world or leave something to your children or not leave the world in such a mess. ...
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia. Journal of Paediatric Child Health, 57 (11), pp. 1759-1764. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15649 (Accessed: 25 May 2023). Ojala, M. (2016) ‘Facing Anxiety in Climate Change Education: From Therapeutic Practice to Hopeful Transgressive Learning’. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 21,...
Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...children are not the genetic offspring of the man considered to be their father.) But sperm count alone is not the only factor that determines fertility. To understand the biology behind male fertility it must first be understood how sperm are produced, how they are transported from the man, and then how they fight their way to their final prize - the egg that may be...
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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...children and property and women, is two drachmae when he disembarks at the Piraeus. The quote above is taken from Plato's dialogue Gorgias (§511d–e). In this and the following passage, which is likely to seem more than a little insensitive to present day readers, Socrates compares the work of two professions — the navigators or ship's skippers and the engineers –...
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...children’s birthday party and splitting the bill in a restaurant. Addition (+) is used when you want to find the total, or sum, of two or more amounts. Subtraction (−) is used when you want to find the difference between two amounts or how much of something you have left after a quantity is used. For example, if you want to find out how much change you are owed after...