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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...research links tableware size with the tendency to eat too much...A new review has produced the most conclusive evidence to date that people consume more food or non-alcoholic drinks when offered larger sized portions or when they use larger items of tableware. The research, carried out by the University of Cambridge and published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic...
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Building on strengths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Building on strengths

How can we understand and support children with attention regulating difficulty (and those without)?...Transcript.
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Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...research fellow in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and I want to share my excitement with you over this 1920s Transport and General Workers Union banner. It’s a dockside branch banner and the Dockers have quite a history of protest from a mass strike of unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1880s (the struggle against casualization and for a daily living...
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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...research into the ageing process using insects as models, but the process equally applies to human beings. [In the centre of this circle are images of a human from a foetus to an old person.] Figure 1 The hallmarks of ageing. There are many complicated processes going on here, but you don’t need to know the details. The most apparent hallmark of ageing is ‘genomic...
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The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...centre of the rail network, connecting the whole of India to the rest of the world, turned Mumbai into the economic powerhouse it is today. [Traffic outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station, Mumbai on bikes and mopeds] Mumbai is India’s financial capital, its City of Dreams – home to billionaires and the hopes and fortunes of all of India. Ambitious workers flood...
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Classical Studies: festivals
History & The Arts

Classical Studies: festivals

...centre of everything. ...Learn about festivals of the ancient world, and the activities and rituals that took place – including chariot races, processions and even a great banquet held in a cemetery. Some of the festivals are surprisingly similar in nature to those we enjoy today. Festivals celebrated by the Ancient Greeks and Romans Dr Jess Hughes, Senior Lecturer in...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...children and young adults in trouble, greater leisure facilities could be made available, such as youth clubs; adventure playgrounds; and educational programmes in music and art. Adult lawbreakers could be helped with community-based employment and job skills training. Implementing social policies The current focus of punishing the offender has meant that the victim is...
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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...centre of Highways of Empire, and let loose his artistry and playfulness. He even misplaced polar bears in the Antarctic, with a speech bubble that asks: ‘Why are we here?’ How should we read the poster? Empire is depicted as the very model of modernity, with global transport creating one system of trade. Routes are shown, with ships and even an aircraft. The latter...
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