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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...open and interested in receiving text suggestions from the young people, and gradually two-way reciprocal recommendations and ‘books in common’ between teachers and children developed. These prompted discussions and life connections and enabled new relationships to begin. Over time, teachers noticed children exchanging texts too and recognised the value of these...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...open a dialogue and that programme was certainly used a lot in schools and universities, as do most of our shows. And in the wildlife area I think it was a series, we ended up doing three different programmes, each one building on the previous one. The first one was with Jeff and Sue Turner about the killing of wolves in Northern British Columbia, and the next time around...
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The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough
Society, Politics & Law

The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough

...opened the door to a serious challenge. A horde of new joiners attracted by Corbyn’s progressive anti-austerity message are now threatening to dramatically recalibrate the trajectory of the party away from its rightward bent of the past two decades. Labour’s moderates have responded forcefully, and with tellingly scant regard to democratic principles. At first they...
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Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...Open University and the University of Leeds shows how platforms can work. But they also face the challenge of maintaining their democratic nature and not becoming centralised and more commerically-driven. For-profit democratic sharing economy platforms are very few and far between (we couldn’t identify any successful examples). So we turned to the non-profit sector and...
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How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour
Science, Maths & Technology

How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour

...module covers addiction as one of its topics with a focus on the role of dopamine in producing risk taking behaviour. The module also covers other aspects of mental health including mood disorders like depression and anxiety, as well as dementias. SDK228 is part of our degree in Health Sciences (Q71) and our degree in Natural Sciences (Q64), as well as our Open Degree....
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Why is fish the translator's nightmare?
Languages

Why is fish the translator's nightmare?

...opened the menu, and sighed. Fish, she said, is my personal nightmare." I could see the point, and agreed. "When you think about it, there are many more species of fish than of other edible animals. Even in my own native tongue, I haven't a clue. What's the difference between a flounder and a halibut? What's so special aboutbarramundi? And what the hell is a sea bass?"...
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Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...opening up difficult emotional issues, identifying new ways of thinking about problems and challenging self-defeating beliefs and behaviours. Taking everything into account it would seem that you don’t have to be your friend’s ‘therapist’ in order to help them and, in fact, you can be more helpful by being a good friend to them in a number of ways that a therapist...
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European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2016: Home Nations dare to dream or will it be an early Brexit?

...Opening Ceremony] On Friday 10th June the 15th UEFA European Championship will commence when the host nation, France, play against Romania in Saint Denis. This will be the first time the tournament has comprised of 24 teams and shows a huge expansion from the 4 teams who competed in the first tournament. The French are the bookmakers’ favourites to win the tournament...
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