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Why getting active with children is good for parents too
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why getting active with children is good for parents too

...work needed to increase the involvement of dads and parents from other ethnic groups. The findings also showed that families wanted to carry on taking part in physical activity sessions when they had completed the programme but often the only next steps they could find were linked to sports, which was not what they wanted. The project is ongoing so hopefully more and more...
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Article 5 mins
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...works best? Brenda Almond gives her perspective on the family. Find out more about Brenda, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Copyright When is inspiration actually plagiarism? Richard Posner guides us through the world of copyright. Find out more about Richard, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Sex and Perversion When does sex bring fulfilment and when is...
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What is Manupedia and how do I use it?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Manupedia and how do I use it?

...works. Often this is presented as a list of steps to the process. Different variants of the process are outlined in separate illustrations and explanations. Every entry then includes three separate sections titled, not surprisingly, manufacture, materials and design. Each section then analyses the process from its particular perspective, often including information...
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Article 10 mins
SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...works as well as better ways of identifying these differences. An analogy that’s often used is that when telescopes improved, we suddenly saw more stars in the sky. These stars were always there but we couldn’t see them without better equipment. However, even with increases in diagnosis there are still issues with underdiagnosis. The British Dyslexia Association, for...
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Article 5 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was soon replicated by others in a host of other organisms, but it only seemed to work when early embryo cells were used. Researchers began to think that animal embryo cells became irreversibly "committed" after the first few cell divisions and that nuclei...
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Article 30 mins
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...works with a range of sports governing bodies and professional athletes, talks about the importance of sports recovery. Watch the video and consider the role recovery plays in a training programme. NICK GRANTHAN My name is Nick Granthan. I'm a performance enhancement specialist. I work with a range of national governing bodies in sports as well as individual athletes....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...working-class voters. Previous Republican nominees such as John McCain, who embraced generous immigration policies, and Mitt Romney, who advocated free trade, never managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the...
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Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...work well when there are more than two strong candidates. It can then produce quite arbitrary outcomes. If there are five strong candidates, should you really be eliminated just because 18 percent of voters put you first, while the other four candidates were placed first by 19 to 22 percent of voters? Shouldn’t we look at how many voters put you second, for instance,...
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