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Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners
Science, Maths & Technology

Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners

...family to inherit property, and Madeleine Smith who allegedly murdered her lover in Glasgow in the 1850s. Famous victims of arsenic poisoning include: King George III whose hair was found to contain large amounts of arsenic. Napoleon Bonaparte who may have been poisoned by the copper arsenite in his wallpaper. George Wythe Sweeney, a friend of Thomas Jefferson and a...
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Melanoma: an emerging concern
Health, Sports & Psychology

Melanoma: an emerging concern

...family history of melanoma. Stages of melanoma The stages and the general expected five-year adult survival rates for each stage are noted below. However, it is worth noting that survival rate data for the various individual stages are not yet routinely available – this is often due to inconsistencies in the data collection by governments. Most survival data also...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...family Having children can be a challenge in any career, but with supportive employers and the right infrastructure, there is no reason why it should be harder within the world of engineering. Peggy Johnson is Microsoft's executive vice president of Business Development, after a 24-year stint working at Qualcomm – and she has three children, four dogs and a cat! More on...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...family and gender identity, belonging and support at the university curriculum and teaching and learning practices. We worked with a sample of nine students who self-identified as British South Asian from Pakistani or Indian backgrounds using visual narratives, semi-structured online interviews and two group workshops. We analysed quantitative data on students’...
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Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...family and public records, operated by the Museums and Libraries Archives Council. County Records: These will be held by your local archives and records office, which will be organised by your local County or Municipal Borough Council. These usually also contain ecclesiastical records, often going back to medieval times. The BBC and the Open University are not responsible...
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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...family on a large working class white council estate. I was bizarre anyway. So the fact that I liked engines and science and maths, the friends that I had, you know, took me for what I was, they had to. Benjamin Zephaniah And as a kid did you think in the future I want to go into engineering or did you just like it as a hobby? Chi Onwurah I think really early on, maybe...
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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...family is in hospital they would visit every day to check everything was okay but because of COVID they were not allowed to do so. The majority of children and young people so far said they didn’t worry too much about catching COVID but ensured that they wore a mask and kept their distance from other people. Education was something which was discussed heavily in terms...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...family relationship to empire in the same way – his younger son Walter was packed off to India as an East India Company cadet, and two of his other sons emigrated to Australia. While empire is not very visible in Dickens’s major fictions, it is still worth paying attention to his published statements on ethnicity and colonial rule. In gauging Dickens’s views on race...
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