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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...out that, if you go northwards, there is a continuous shift from darker to lighter skin colours. And if you don’t look at the people of those two countries in isolation, but at all the people of Europe, Middle East, and Africa together, you will see a great blend of skin colours, where it will be really difficult to draw a sharp boundary and split people into categories...
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...in which changes in the brain have been found are Alzheimer’s disease and autism - you can find out more in the content below: In addition, interventions within the brain could compensate for damage elsewhere in the nervous as has been demonstrated for paralysis. This article explores how neurochips could pave the way to healing for those with paralysed limbs....
A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...RCN International Research Conference. Oxford, UK, 5-7 April 2017. Statista (2019) Global active usage penetration of leading social networks as of February 2019. Available at: www.statista.com/statistics/274773/global-penetration-of-selected-social-media-sites/ (Accessed 22 January 2020). Find out how secure your social media profiles are Discover more content like this...
Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...out their perceptions of what is going on for them. This can help them get any problems in proportion and to develop a stronger sense of meaning and direction in their lives. Knowing that support is available from a friend increases feelings of security and helps to protect against stress. Sharing difficulties with a friend can help reduce their emotional impact and can...
Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...out just like their parent’. Megan Comfort’s theory of secondary prisonisation describes how relatives of prisoners experience a form of secondary stigma where they are deemed responsible for both the actions of their relative and for their continued support for the offender. [A sad child] Children describe how they feel they have to keep their parent’s imprisonment...
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...out – And now the tale is done. Carroll turned the story into a handmade book for Alice Liddell, complete with illustrations he drew himself. Carroll’s drawings feature a dark-haired girl much more like Alice Liddell than Tenniel’s vision of Alice, and the book is full of references to the shared social and imaginative world Carroll and his young friend inhabited in...
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...out meat consumption, they certainly point also at the excess of sugar and fat consumption. So we can consider that staying within some guidelines for health can also help for the environment. RH: And how much meat eating per week would that mean? JFS: You would not find this easily in any of the WHO recommendations, so I think we cannot conclude on this directly. RH: So...
Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...out now. Some, such as Japanese volleyball player Risa Shinnabe and New Zealand cyclist Eddie Dawkins, chose to retire in 2020. Shinnabe said: "That one year, to me, felt very long […] I could no longer imagine that I would be able to go through the same cycle for another year and maintain my condition" (Rowbottom, 2021). The ones who hung on… Those who decided to...