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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...courses and qualifications. What is language? Language is a method of communication, which contains a structured system consisting of a set of sounds, written symbols and signs. It describes how we share norms, values, meaning, culture and perspectives of the world with others who understand the same language system. All languages are fluid, taking on new words, meanings...
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The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...free of oil stain in about two months but were still not fully waterproof. For a feather to be waterproof its components must have a regular structure (Elder 1954) of certain dimensions (Rijke 1968) and a water-repellent surface. It is possible that, as in some plants, a microrough surface is needed for strong water repellency (Amsden and Lewins 1966). Oiling, handling...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...free CPD for RfP across the UK. A monthly newsletter keeps teachers up to date with new resources, events and conferences and, in addition, the Egmont RfP Awards, in collaboration with OU and UKLA, help to profile the work of practitioners and schools who have created vibrant cultures of reading. Significantly too, this community website invites teachers to share their...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...free sodium abounds, often causing soil structure deterioration. Zambia, for example, has three agroecological zones, distinguished by rainfall and growing season. Soil microbiologist Alice Mweetwa, deputy director for research and graduate studies at the University of Zambia, works with farmers and students across the country to address low soil fertility, low organic...
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An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...free of particles and toxic wound contaminants. Is non-toxic and non-allergenic. Is capable of protecting the wound from further trauma. Can be removed without causing trauma to the wound (or surrounding skin). Is sterile and impermeable to bacteria. Is thermally insulating. Will allow gaseous exchange. Is comfortable and conformable. Requires only infrequent changes. Is...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...free tickets to go to Whipsnade and London Zoo. So always fascinated from that point of view but not necessarily from career, it’s just I ended up being in Bristol and the Bristol television scene is dominated by wildlife, so the two combined that way. Studying drama, filming natural history With regard to education, I actually went to university and studied drama, and...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...Free, the latest research on the effects of contemporary hair relaxers, which evidences Black women who have used chemical relaxers more than twice a year for more than five years have an increased risk of developing uterine cancer. Black women who used hair products containing Lye at least seven times a year for more than fifteen years had a thirty per cent increased...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...course, what Brundage and others were really worried about was men invading women’s sport. And that is still the case today. I have been accused of “really” being a man who wants to profit in women’s sport, and there are several morons on the letsrun message board who continue to insist that Semenya is a man. Hence, the notion that 21st century followers of sport...
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