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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...data that does exist is distorted, London-centric, and contrived from unverified police intelligence sources and the opinions of a small group of justice professionals and senior police officers. [A photo of Pekin Close, in Poplar, a London estate road, Canary Wharf in the background] Pekin Close, Poplar, London For my book, Race, Gangs and Youth Violence, I drew on young...
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From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...data. Their findings have never been replicated in large-scale human research. This pattern is familiar from other autism “scares”. Early studies that suggested a link between ultrasound scans or prenatal stress and autism also relied on animal models and were not confirmed by large population studies. Myths that outlive the evidence Even when false claims are...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...data on the ocean and the deeper ocean, and it’s only in the last five or so years that we’ve begun to get a good look at the changes in the heat stored in the ocean and the carbon stored and that was simply we wanted to look but it’s only recently we’ve had the funding and had the initiatives to really begin to get good coverage of this incredibly important part...
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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...data from a U.S. national survey and found that fewer than four in ten children met both physical activity and screen time recommendations (screen time recommendations were no more than two hours a day). Even so, the study clearly stated that low levels of screen time viewing may not necessarily predict higher levels of physical activity. In Activity 3, you will read an...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...analysis of ADME factors is usually described as ‘drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics’ or DMPK studies.) Taking the above factors fully into account improves the chances that any selected candidate will progress through to Phase 1 trials. Even then, at the present time, some 40% of candidates drop out of contention at the preclinical evaluation stage. Success in...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...data are not the result of its own self-production. The way the computer works remains the same, whether it is processing pictures from the National Gallery or whether it is processing letters of the alphabet. The rules that relate input to output are constant over time. The question of what I can know about the outside world is an ancient one and has always been central...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...analysis and evaluation in order to respond intelligently to disputes, controversies and arguments about issues. Subjects like geography develop approaches to ‘disciplined enquiry’ that use a small number of very important concepts. When these are used and grown, using real data and examples, they do not ‘tell’ pupils what to think, but help them to think about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...data collected in England from 2001 to 2011. It contains three main types of information: the percentage of a population sample achieving 5 A DAY the year of data collection the population categories of men, women and children. [Described image] (Source: Defra, 2013, p. 61) Figure 1 Consumption of fruit and vegetables in men, women and children in England, based on one 24...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs