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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...history of the climate from clues left in the rocks...[An unsual cliff formation] Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. The rock record or ‘geological time’ extends back to 4 billion years ago. Of course it cannot go back right to the formation of Earth, because the young Earth was hot and most of the outer part was probably molten, but even so this is a vast...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see visual images. The most powerful include Emmeline Pankhurst caught up in the physically restraining arms of a policeman at the gates of Buckingham Palace when she tried to present a petition to the king. Or how about the grainy footage of the Epsom Derby in June 1913, when Emily...
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Further uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Further uses of genetic testing

...family. Genetic testing can use this to work out how two people are related to each other, by analysing how well their DNA profiles match. This can range from identifying a child’s biological father using paternity testing, to mapping whole family relationships over time through genetic genealogy. Genetic ancestry testing uses a similar idea of comparing a person’s...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...history of British broadcasting. Sussex deployed closed-circuit television for classroom observation in teacher training, to record and play back lectures and to display teaching materials. The university also had audio-visual units, language laboratories and some programmed learning. Technology, Briggs felt, should be employed to enable collaborative learning and he...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...history and its role in medicine today...The History Perhaps all human cultures throughout the world and throughout history have used some form of herbal medicine. Certainly plants which are still used as medicines have been found in ancient burial sites around the world – the oldest may be the grave of a Neanderthal man from (what is now) Northern Iraq estimated to be...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to...
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Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup

...families, who were colloquially known as the WAGs (wives and girlfriends) and FAFs (friends and families). The WAGs included the high-profile wives and partners of players like David Beckham, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney. Unfortunately, Baden-Baden became a celebrity circus with the focus often centred on the social activities of the players’ partners and families...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...histories of their respective nations. This is a potentially revealing angle because ideas about the past provide the foundation for national identities in the present. The glories and triumphs of yesteryear, the collective endurance of vicissitudes long past, the belief in shared origins and collective experiences: these are the things which provide the raw materials...
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