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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...circulation changes. This can result in increased intracranial pressure, which causes headaches. These are all effects that astronauts like Tim Peake experience during lengthy stays on the International Space Station. It’s hard to test these factors as it’s so hard to isolate one effect from another, nor do we have a large number of astronauts. The advantage of bed...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...circulated. So, as a religious studies scholar, what are my questions to do with this research: why am I looking at it; what am I interested in? When we’re looking at both historical and contemporary evidence about religious traditions or any tradition we often find that people are doing something slightly different than what they might be saying they’re doing in...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...circulating through volcanic rocks in Iceland. Once the fluids cool below a certain temperature, minerals are precipitated. Similar environments might have existed on Mars, which is why we used this area as an analogue site. I’m also interested in how fluids are recycled on planets like Mars that don’t have tectonic activity, as we do on Earth. Mars used to be...
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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...double curvature of the spine, the tilt of the pelvis and the correct number of vertebrae. 1507 In 1507 Leonardo met Francesco Melzi, a Milanese gentleman who became his pupil. He became one of Leonardo’s lifelong companions. 1510-1513 Anatomy Respiratory system Between 1510 and 1513 Leonardo researched the respiratory systems of animals and made his conclusions fit...
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Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...et al: A team can … achieve what none of the individuals within it can do alone; with the right dynamic, a collection of ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary feats. But the converse can also occur: a team can fail to achieve what any of its members could easily accomplish. (Source: Mabey et al, 1998) The challenge of learning how to make teams work begins with...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...et al., 1978). The procedure has eight episodes, designed to expose infants to increasing amounts of stress in order to observe how they organise their attachment behaviours with their parents when distressed by: being in an unfamiliar environment, the entrance of an unfamiliar adult, and brief separations from the parent. Box 1: The Strange Situation Test This assessment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...et al., 2017). In practice, although all pupils were introduced to subjects such as English, mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such...
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...et al. 2015) raises precisely this question: how are teacher attitudes towards linguistic diversity related to the expectations they hold of their students? While the study does not actually go on to examine a link between teacher expectations and student performance, the results of the study are not pretty: The researchers found that three-quarters of all the 674...
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