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Discover Mercury: International collaboration
The journey to another world relies on co-operation all around this one... Transcript
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
...World Television. Ade graduated from Cambridge University in the early 90s, where he was an early student of climate change. He then went on to help BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman research his best-selling book The English. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing...
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Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?
...world, the Rugby World Cup, began. In the lead-up to the event – and amidst the current turmoil surrounding other elite sports such as athletics and cycling – World Rugby’s Anti-Doping Compliance manager, David Ho, has boldly claimed that the sport’s anti-doping programme is the envy of sports around the world. Ho cites numerous reasons for this including an...
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Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?
...World Cup. The 2014 World Cup saw huge amounts of pressure and expectation placed on Hodgson’s 23 man England squad. This pressure and expectation came from representing their country, the public and their manager who openly stated before the tournament that he felt he had a winning squad. Roll forward to 2016 and exactly 50 years since England’s iconic 1966 World Cup...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
...world need to change how they treat teenagers says The Open University's Honorary Associate in Sleep, Circadian and Memory Neuroscience, Dr Paul Kelley...In societies the world over, teenagers are blamed for staying up late, then struggling to wake up in the morning. While it’s true that plenty of teenagers (like many adults) do have bad bedtime habits, researchers have...