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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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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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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...course you have to consider the much bigger stakes in the Middle East and Europe. Part of the reason for conducting our Vietnam withdrawal so slowly is to give some message that we are not prepared to pay any price for ending a war; we must now ask ourselves what we are willing to pay to avert war. If we are not, we have tough days ahead." The President repeated that the...
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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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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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Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...free exercise, and there’s always the possibility that the immune system might make another assault on the transplanted cells. So, will the tale of the orexins really have a happy ending? The translation of basic research into the clinic is notoriously difficult and expensive, says Casper. (The cost of the current best available treatment for narcolepsy – sodium...
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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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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...course. Miles told me about an agricultural meeting at which delegates discussed frozen bull’s semen; a French interpreter translated this as “matelot congelés”, or ‘deep-frozen sailors’. And she shared an error of her own, produced when a delegate spoke of the need to settle something “avant Milan” – ‘before Milan’, the city being the venue for a...
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