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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...opening the blood–brain barrier specifically at the point where they’re moving along the blood vessels. They’re essentially ensheathing the blood vessels, and as they do that, they’re gradually breaking down this barrier so that, at the site where they’re invading, there is active penetration of this molecule into the brain.” In 2004 Richard Ellenbogen sent...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...open to discussion. However, the citing of Red Clyde as evidence of such is only sustainable by downplaying the nature of contemporary working-class radicalism elsewhere in Britain. (The associated suggestion that the suppression of Red Clyde represents the work of an oppressive English state is to misread the nature of the early 20th century British state and political...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...Open University https://ourfp.org/reads/ Cremin, T., Hempel Jorgensen, A. & Mukherjee, S. (2019) The Reading Road Map: A Report for Islington Library Services. Cremin, T. Hendry, H., Rodriguez Leon, L. and Kucirkova, N. (2022) (eds) Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure, London, Routledge. Cremin, T., Mottram, M., Collins, F. M., Powell, S. and Safford, K....
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...course. Miles told me about an agricultural meeting at which delegates discussed frozen bull’s semen; a French interpreter translated this as “matelot congelés”, or ‘deep-frozen sailors’. And she shared an error of her own, produced when a delegate spoke of the need to settle something “avant Milan” – ‘before Milan’, the city being the venue for a...
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The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...courses is based on the financial resources of the organising member association,’ (FIFA, 1999), (Mazars & ASCI, 2021) a system inherently disadvantaging African and Caribbean federations compared to their European counterparts. Pipeline development: Initiatives like Madalitso Mkoloma’s International Football Heritage Agency (IFHA) are crucial. Mkoloma is an...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...course, valuable in everyday life. But perhaps the most exciting benefit of bilingualism occurs in ageing, when executive function typically declines: bilingualism seems to protect against dementia. Psycholinguist Ellen Bialystok made the surprising discovery at York University in Toronto while she was comparing an ageing population of monolinguals and bilinguals. “The...
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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...course called Memory of the Holocaust: Psychological aspects. Taught by Professor Hadas Wiseman, it outlines how the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors have been passed down to their children and grandchildren, a phenomenon known as ‘intergenerational transmission of trauma’. Much research has been published on the subject. In 1980, a husband-and-wife team,...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...course we are, about the loss of biodiversity and the absolute apparent competition that the human race are with the natural world, the natural world on which they depend, so we cannot escape this kind of almost sort of war on nature and we’re right on it now, it’s inescapable. So there is going to be the richest seam of content, of storytelling, of ideas, that work...
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