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What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...Code in 1951. However, decriminalization alone has not ensured complete freedom for members of Jordan's LGBT community. Article Six of the Jordanian Constitution protects citizens from discrimination on the basis of race, language or religion, but these protections do not extend to people of variant sexual identity. This gray area is where discrimination still manages to...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Code of Practice https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25 EYFS https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2 Bower, C. (2019) ‘“Um, I was getting bullied at school because I didn’t believe in god”: one family’s experience of autism, school and home education’, International journal of...
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The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...simple question with a really simple answer. Who has the biggest military budget? It's got to be America, right? Massive. 609 billion in 2008 - 607, rather. So massive, in fact, that it can contain all the other military budgets in the world inside itself. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. Now you can see, Africa's total debt there and the UK budget deficit for reference....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...simple and informal classification of the fingerprints, rather like a signature. But it is perhaps the first sign of recognition that a person's fingerprints are unique to that person - something that is still considered to be true today and forms one of the foundations of individual identification. The process of 'matching' individuals and things to a crime scene that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...simple container of shower gel has required, if you think about it, interactions among lots of people engaged in an enormous range of activities. Activity 1 (exploratory) The soap used in a shower gel is usually made by reacting a fat (often a vegetable oil) with an alkali (a generic name for a type of chemical). In three minutes, write down as many
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
When is the best time to buy plane tickets?
Money & Business

When is the best time to buy plane tickets?

...simple tips. First, if you have to travel during a peak period, such as Thanksgiving week, it is generally best not to delay buying that ticket. Otherwise, it might pay to monitor the offered prices for some time before committing. The best strategy for booking within the last couple of weeks before the flight, however, is not to delay the purchase, but to try getting...
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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...simple and straightforward enough. Harper Lee was born Nelle Lee in the small town of Monroe, Alabama in 1926. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lawyer who, among other things, defended two African Americans accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Given the racist attitudes prevalent in the South at that time, it must have come as no surprise to anyone when the two...
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Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...simple to make and easy to repair. We wanted to reduce the barriers to making your own machine. The OSCVM is also an opportunity to buy condoms in private, something that is difficult to do in the crowded pharmacies and markets. Rather than try to invent something brand new, we worked to build something old in a new way. If the Nano Membrane Toilet saves lives, then we...
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