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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...course of treatment. Now, he is healthy and able to work hard at school. Still, Mgode explains, the benefits of a correct diagnosis go beyond access to life-saving drugs. For some patients, there is also the stigma of being suspected of having HIV. Not long ago, with a group of Apopo donors, Mgode met a man in Morogoro whose TB had been detected by the rats. “Afterwards...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...courses all kicked up for two or three years after Blue Planet, because of the impact that that series made on the public. Should the environmental programme accompanying Blue Planet have been shown on a different channel? Blue Planet came out as eight blue chip, straight natural history programmes and there was a ninth programme which was called Making Waves, which was...
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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...course it’s true, I said it" – it happens more often than you would think it does!) Finally, you need to read widely and broadly. You need to read authors you agree with, and authors that you disagree with, and then work out what you think. Gradually you’ll be able to work out what constitutes a good source without being dependent upon some of these indicators –...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...course it’s always important to go back and review after editing, because when you change a piece of work, it’s easy to introduce errors, as well as fix them. Who could you ask for help?How does this relate to you in the EPQ process? Who could you ask for help and when? Throughout the writing process, you will benefit from getting feedback on your work, and you might...
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Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...course of the earlier acts by the tediously drawn out, monotonous ravings of Lear, and if, moreover, this expression of his feelings constituted the last scene. But the scene is not the last. In the fifth act, the former coldly pompous, artificial ravings of Lear go on again, destroying the impression which the previous scene might have produced. The first scene of the...
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