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Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age
Education & Development

Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age

...world today is a high level of obesity among children worldwide: this is not only in countries such as the UK, where nearly a third of children aged 2-15 are overweight or obese, but also in the rest of the world, where obesity is rising rapidly including in countries where malnutrition is also found. Obesity brings risks to health and mental health throughout childhood...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...world as well as the diversity of those who live in it is mind-bogglingly fascinating. From the biodiverse tropical jungles of Amazonia, to the unique fauna of Australia; from the species-rich grasslands of temperate Europe to the extremely acidic and salty pans of the rift valley in East Africa, life in our blue and green planet is richly diverse and still largely...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...worlds in which I live, to find out what it is ‘we’/I don’t know. Knowledge needs to be diverse and flexible – while remaining robust – if it is to become something really useful in a complex and often intolerant world in which globalisation and technology increasingly compress time and space, bringing diversities into sharp relief with major human consequences....
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...world. Monisha discovered at the end of her journey that, ‘Trains would always be an open window into the soul of a country and its people’. It wasn’t always easy, the trains were variable in terms of comfort, safety and reliability but it was always surprising. In her best-selling account of the journey, ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ (2019) Rajesh describes a...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...world...[A cartoon of famous left-handed characters and figures including Napoleon, Bart Simpson and Garfield.] What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Toulouse Lautrec, Robert De Niro, Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Lewis Carroll, Bart Simpson, Harpo Marx, Spike Lee, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Uri Geller, Albert Einstein, Napoleon Bonaparte, Aristotle, Marie Curie,...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between the disasters presented by global and social media and the debilitating mood that...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care...
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...World Cup. But the tackles, speed and power fans see on the field are only part of the story. What we don’t see is what it takes – both physically and psychologically – to wear England’s emblem, the Red Rose...The psychology of rugby shapes every performance. Behind the scenes lie early mornings, lonely and punishing rehab sessions, playing through pain, brutal...
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