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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...et al.’s main findings. As you can see, white participants in the study tended to classify positive words more quickly (in milliseconds) if they were preceded by exposure to a white face ‘prime’ than they did when such words were preceded by a black face prime. Similarly, white participants tended to classify negative words more quickly when preceded by a black,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...et al., 2020) – more on that later. We identified a group of microorganisms – sulfur-oxidising bacteria – that live in the springs. These bacteria produce the energy they need to survive by oxidising sulfur. This group hadn’t been considered as organisms that could be viable on Mars but knowing they are capable of surviving under conditions that are very similar...
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Article 10 mins
What does the anatomy of World records reveal?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does the anatomy of World records reveal?

...doubled to 205 nations. As more nations begin to take top level sport seriously the talent and gene pool of those with exceptional physiology that may allow them to excel is being expanded to populations of people that weren't previously competing at all. Think of how standards in some sport have risen with the arrival of East African nations in the 1960-80s, China in the...
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Article 5 mins
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...double decker buses, tents, tree houses and caravans to deck out as school libraries, as well as garden sheds, boats, baths and sofas to enrich classroom reading areas. These physical spaces overtly indicate to parents, governors, Ofsted inspectors and the children that the school values reading, but is this institutional demonstration enough? Reading for pleasure is more...
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Article 10 mins
How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam.” King concluded with the famous words on “the fierce urgency of now,” by which he emphasized the immediacy of the connection between economic injustice and racial inequality. The radical King King’s “I Have a Dream,” speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 serves as the...
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Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...double standard is striking. Donald Trump deliberately aligned himself with a vision of America that privileges white experience over all others.The mythology that these white racist radicals are somehow ‘un-American’ is one of the most dangerous stories of the post-Reconstruction era. White racism upended any potential for real healing after the Civil War. White...
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Article 10 mins
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...et al., 2010), almost doubling to just under 200 Mt by 2010 (Zhang et al., 2010). The World Bank projects China’s MSW to increase to over 500 Mt by 2025 (Figure 8), accounting for nearly one-quarter of the amount of MSW expected to be generated by the entire world (Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata, 2012). [Described image] Figure 8 Estimated past and predicted annual growth of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2023) or in other words, whether people have the capability to achieve the lives or outcomes they value, not just the right to do so. Activity 1 What skills do learners need? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Watch the video below in which Sally Hayns, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs