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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...adult intelligence in ‘negroes’ as their intellectual development will stop at an early age. Another anthropological society meeting discussed the ‘Negro and his place in Nature’. Scientists compared black people as ‘of shorter stature […] whose arms were long in proportion, thus enabling the negro […] to touch his knee’, and as closer to the apes. They...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...adult education system, and Wilfred Clark (1898-1981), who founded the British Wheel of Yoga, have legacies which are much easier to document. Why British women embraced yoga But the significance of these two women in inspiring other women should not be underestimated. Women quickly became the majority of both students and teachers of yoga in Britain, comprising of 70-90%...
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What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...adults capable of making up their own minds seems in stark contrast with the authoritarian tone of publicity from the Department of Health, which baldly says “Men should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol each week, the same as women”. Neither the press release nor the Summary of the guidelines provide any information on the effects of higher consumption, but...
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East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...adult-themed. Audiences in Western Europe are sometimes surprised at the content of PG-rated anime films too – there is quite a cultural difference there. Studio Ghibli films have some vivid scenes, e.g. the Princess Mononoke battle scenes, however many of them are lyrical coming-of-age stories or celebrations of the natural world. Japanese religious faith and culture...
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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...adult) geographic knowledge'. View document Read David Lambert on 'The power and relevance of geography in education' by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Read Alastair Bonnet's 'Geography as the world discipline: connecting popular and academic geographical imaginations' by clicking 'view document'. View document But to argue that teaching geography can be...
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Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...adults to help protect their rights under the Care Act (HM Government, 2014) and the Children Act (HM Government, 2004). In terms of their protection, this means that there is a collective responsibility to share information about criminal activity or circumstances which appear to threaten a minor or vulnerable adult’s safety or wellbeing, if this is disclosed. This...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is through coal which means that if you think it is right these people get richer in every sense of the word, which I think is right, then you would have to accept that they will emit more greenhouse gases. I mean the solution there is not to deny them access to energy as DFID at the...
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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...care. In the November 2013 PISA International tests taken by 15-year olds, Shanghai in China topped the table and Hong Kong came third. However, Shanghai and Hong Kong are affluent cities and make up only a small proportion of China’s population. Are they representative of secondary schooling in China as a whole? Does a test result like that really mean that all UK...
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