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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...classes at Wellingford. The listeners can do this while I run it through, I get the class and I ask them to think of a famous scientist. Few hands pop up, and then I tell them ‘think of a white male scientist’. A couple of kids put their hands up, classic ones come up, Einstein for example or Newton, now try and think of a white female scientist and with one class one...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...de-clutter'. Both the BBC and other channels have television series about ‘collectaholics’ and hoarders who meet counsellors persuading them to ‘de-clutter’. There are of course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material...
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Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...De Las Cuevas at the University of Cantabria. Another concern is pensions and whether annual increases in the state pension will continue to be paid after Brexit. These increments are not paid to those living outside of the EU in countries like Canada and Australia, whose state pension is frozen at the amount it was when they left the UK. It’s possible the same rules...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...des sorciers (Harry Potter at the Wizards’ School). The seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, proved difficult to translate, so J.K. Rowling provided translators with the alternative title Harry Potter and the Relics of Death, which was the basis for most of the international translations. Translators had to be creative with the title of the latest book in...
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Article 15 mins
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...La Sarraz, Switzerland, in 1928. None of the signatories was British. The La Sarraz Declaration asserted that architecture could no longer exist in an isolated state separate from governments and politics, but that economic and social conditions would fundamentally affect the buildings of the future. The Declaration also asserted that as society became more...
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Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...class and hierarchy in empire? The EMB nevertheless had a fairly small budget, which was further cut due to general austerity measures in the depression, with the organisation as a whole being disbanded in September 1933. After its demise, the film collection it had built up at the Imperial Institute in London changed hands, but was still maintained there. Influential EMB...
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...class-controlled trade and politics, and the country’s “Golden Age” was far from evenly distributed. And while in theory the relatively new country was a republic, in practice its head of state had at times been the first-born son of the House of Orange, a powerful and popular aristocratic family that had led military efforts towards independence. By the late 1660s,...
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Article 10 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...feedbacks that need to be created or bridged, mindful that healthy, fresh produce is of little use to people experiencing deep poverty if they cannot afford the energy to store and prepare it. [Fresh vegetable produce] Amplifying is opportunistic; targeting new system interventions to expand their impact. From February 2024, new legislation requires all property...
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