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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...adult children remaining at home, or retired parents moving in with adult children, is a situation where non-related adults share accommodation. However, people may also deliberately choose such alternative forms of living for other reasons (instead of, or in addition to, this). For example, they may do so due to shared spiritual, political or ecological commitments. It...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...digitalisation brought about by the pandemic and our false assumption that digital is carbon-free (or thereabouts), the impact of our digital lifestyles is accelerating at an incredible rate and shows no signs of abating. How big? The question of exactly how big our collective carbon footprint is, is one of ongoing discussion. Current estimates put the total carbon...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...adults. The idea is usually that these groups demonstrate some capability or property that we find morally significant in our own case, and that in virtue of this the marginalised group deserves moral consideration. But healthy human adults are complicated creatures, with a range of morally relevant capacities and characteristics. Healthy human adults are sentient, they...
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...adults aged 65 years and over provide unpaid care - how much has this increased since the corona virus outbreak? This article explores...“Each day elderly care givers are faced with numerous challenges; it is likely that the period of coronavirus lockdown will have impacted upon these further.” This article focusses on older carers within a wider research study...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...adults are already apprehensive about the amount of time kids spend online, with a lot of parents not wanting to encourage any further computer use. People can also be reluctant to try something that is perceived to be very new or untested. However, self-help utilizing modern technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the past mediums such as cassette...
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Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are described as predictive tests. Pre-natal diagnosis uses techniques such as amniocentesis to test fetuses in the womb. For example, it is commonly offered to women over 35 to test for Down's syndrome. Childhood testing involves testing children for genetic diseases...
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...adult and this raises a question: how do children, who are generally thought to be less skilled and knowledgeable than adults, acquire such a complex system at such a young age? Early learning centre [Young child kissing pregnancy 'bump']Language learning certainly begins early. At 35 weeks old, babies can already distinguish between different vowel sounds. That is not 35...
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How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...adult researchers and gatekeepers, and young people as participants can hide how young people feel about participating in research. In this short video we present a reflexive researcher approach to achieving effective ongoing assent/consent working with children and young people. It identifies different reflexive considerations for adult researchers as a continuous...
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