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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...courses and qualifications [The image shows back of a person wearing a hijab looking at trees as she walks on through them. She is wearing a white t-shirt and a black satchel over one shoulder. She is walking into a woodland area with dark trees.] The year 2020 was supposed to be the year when I got back into shape and did something for myself. I have worked for over 25...
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What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...course of action, but it effectively limits the continuous release of new virus from a cell. Not all viruses are ‘bad’ In recent years, many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses that infect and destroy bacteria have therefore become a focus of medical research. These viruses, known as bacteriophages, do not infect human cells, so they can be used as...
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Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...has been sourced and repurposed from the following organisations: National Health Service (NHS), The Open University Help Centre, Mind Cymru and Time to Change Wales. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...course come from the developed nations, and this will help other countries to make the technology transfer. RH: But environmentalists will riot if you suggest that that clean development money is used to fund new coal-fired power stations, even though they may be more efficient. FB: No. This is up to the countries to decide how they are going to improve their efficiency....
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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...courses and qualifications. _ This is an invitation to: watch a series of six videos from countries across the Global South as part of the International virtual field trip reflect on your learning undertake some independent study. Introduction This series of videos offers a chance to embark on an ‘International virtual field trip’. In addition to observing and...
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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...course kissed on their successive layers of dirt. There were also many small boys who, I hope, were not so wicked as they were ragged. At noon-time they hung much about the windows of cookshops which one would think their sharp hunger would have pierced to the steaming and smoking dishes within. The very morning after I had denied that man a penny at the theatre door, and...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...course of medical science,” said the microbiologist Milton Wainwright. It was “a therapy the demise of which no one is likely to mourn”. A tsunami of hard-to-heal wounds, however, brought this backwater back to the forefront of medicine. Wounds go through a series of stages to close and heal. After bleeding stops, white blood cells flock to the scene to break down...
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The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...that swirls around Northern Ireland post-Brexit, a 2024 forum would appear to be very much on the cards. The push remains, the shove continues. [Joe Biden's plane arrives in Belfast. What the Good Friday Agreement will mean for the future of American influence?] Find out more To discover what the Good Friday Agreement means in wider context, why not try the courses below?...
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