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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...C) glycoalkaloids get destroyed, making it safe (and delicious) to eat. Just one more Christmas biscuit [Christmas biscuit ] Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, Yule log… Winter festivities are usually filled with many deliciously sweet desserts and chocolates that are enjoyed by adults and kids alike. But, why do we like sugar so much? Sugars are carbohydrates found...
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Driven to drink?
Society, Politics & Law

Driven to drink?

...C. Mero is called Under the Influence. A Case Study of the Elks, MADD, and DUI Policy (Lanham, Maryland, USA, University Press of America, 2015) and readers based in Britain may need a translation if they are to get to grips with the title. The Elks of the title refers to the US-based, men-only (until the 1990s) fraternal and charitable body, the Benevolent and Protective...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...C Murray explores how Dickens might have been shaped by the work of Richard Owen in this review of Gowan Dawson's Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design in Victorian Literature and Culture 44.4...[Charles Dickens meets a dinosaur] Although he is more likely remembered for coining the term “dinosaur,” Richard Owen also influenced the writings of his friend Charles Dickens....
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...c” word in Tropic of Cancer and by Fear of Flying with its “zipless fuck”. It says something about the current state of sex writing that the most exciting innovation of the last five years has been the mainstreaming of “mummy porn” in Fifty Shades of Grey. Perhaps the way lies ahead not in explicit writing but in experimental fiction. DH Lawrence wrote about sex...
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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...C, has now been signed by 194 states plus the European Union, while more than 130 countries have now set or are considering a target of net-zero emissions by 2050. These pledges will drive further investments and efficiencies and increased uptake of renewable energy. [Photo of a person putting a coin into a globe piggy bank] So, what does all this mean for geopolitical...
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Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...C Within red blood cells, Plasmodium undergoes a cycle similar to that occurring in the liver, i.e. growth (a feeding stage), mitosis and release of small infective cells by rupture of the host cell. This stage is generally regarded as the main feeding and growth stage by the osmotrophic parasites. It is also the stage that causes greatest damage to human hosts and...
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The rise of the Roses
Health, Sports & Psychology

The rise of the Roses

...C), Wing Defence (WD), Goal Defence (GD) and Goal Keeper (GK). Netball was originally developed as a game that was primarily played by women and girls. Initially adapted from the game of basketball in America in 1891, netball was first played in England in 1895 at Madame Ostenburg’s College. At that time, vigorous exercise for women was not typically well received, but...
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...Accessed: 10 Feb 2023). Read more about the research: Borgstrom, E., Jordan, J., and Henry C. (2022) Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: Mapping Examples of Use in Practice. Milton Keynes: The Open University. Available at: https://oro.open.ac.uk/82928/https://oro.open.ac.uk/82928 (Accessed: 10 Feb 2023)....
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