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Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...accounted for nearly 70% of children’s viewing, children were still exposed to high levels of junk food advertising. Therefore, as the WHO has repeatedly stressed since 2010, children’s overall exposure to junk food marketing needs to be reduced, wherever it’s encountered. And now, as the broadcast era cedes to online media dominance, ethical and health concerns...
A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...accountable for their actions of harming, hurting or ignoring Black people or their feelings or actions towards them. Racial gaslighting is denying that racism exists or arguing that Black people ‘always make it about race’. Tone policing is a tactic that is used to dismiss an idea being communicated because the person expressing it appears to be angry, sad,...
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...account, inhaling the gas himself three or four times a day. The laboratory became a philosophical theatre in which the boundaries between experimenter and subject, spectator and performer were blurred to fascinating effect, and the experiment took on a life of its own. Although the trials commenced within a medical framework, they came to focus increasingly on questions...
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...accounts of the ways in which museums and galleries can be used with pupils. First, a visit by older secondary school pupils to a large national museum. These visits are available for pupils of all ages. Click on 'view document' below to download Looking at paintings at the National Gallery View document Small local museums also have much to offer. Here is a description...
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...accounts by Mia's Family below. They were asked to think back to her birth and the few weeks following it, and remember what she was like and how they felt. They used video pictures and photographs to help them. As you read, make notes on what the Family noticed about Mia and: her range of emotions her communication and social skills her need for contact and her use of...
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...accountants to deal with the accounts of your business, paying tax (if you make a profit!) and VAT. You may need the services of solicitors in relation to many of the things we are considering here (for example, to draw up contracts of employment). If you were involved in all of these things, you would certainly be running a business. What, then, is a business? Well, it...
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Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...accounts as additional investment, although it is unplanned. The identity – saving equals investment – still holds but only because of the way in which the terms 'saving' and 'investment' are defined for accounting purposes. Now for the opposite story. Suppose households decide to save less and, therefore, to consume more. One possible outcome is that firms will run...
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...account to assess their claims and to call out when they're not telling it straight. Tony Thorne As this is where I think that the mainstream media again whichever side you're on whether you're pro Brexit pro Trump pro Boris Johnson pro Theresa May or pro Jeremy Corbyn the mainstream media has been complicit in a sense in all of these untruths and half truths because they...