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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...class, cultural, generational). Discussing key issues that in research and thinking about food, including how policies tackling obesity are framed, it draws across work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...class, and probably other features such as work status (employed, unemployed, retired, and so on) and the region of the country where they live. Most of the polling organisations speak to their sample of electors either by telephone interviews or through websites. The margin of error There are several kinds of opinion poll results for an election. The commonest kind in...
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Article 10 mins
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...class—a proxy for her relative worth as a human being, in the eyes of an antiquated social system—was upended by Facebook's system. The abuse came from another user, but it was the cultural blindness of Facebook's policies that made this possible from the start. And when Preetha explained to the company what had gone wrong, it took far too long for it to pay attention...
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Article 5 mins
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...classes, the otherkin community multiplied and diversified. “The first decade of the 21st century witnessed a huge diversification in terms of assumed sexual and gender preferences and identities – especially once otherkin groups migrated to the blog-hosting site, Tumbr,” says Feijó. In his essay, Feijó highlights the contrast between communities which embrace the...
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Article 10 mins
Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash
History & The Arts

Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash

...class locomotive] A later train in LBSCR livery Fatal collision on the London And Brighton Railway Last night an inquest was held by Mr W Payne, the coroner, and a numerous jury, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of William Jenner, who died at that institution from injuries received by an collision on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, on the 27th of August last....
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Article 10 mins
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...black holes out of the shadows and into the public imagination. Personally I’ll miss his appearances on The Big Bang Theory, where he could out-nerd the nerds, and also provide some often necessary common sense. It was always great to see a world-class scientist just having fun. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 20 mins
The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...classes to teach and get fewer holidays. When we went out on strike so that everyone would be on the same salary scale and get the same working conditions the slogan was ‘From Dumfries to Stornoway, what we want is Equal Pay!’ Trade unionists tend to see equal pay as relating only to differences between women and men, but we made it an issue of justice for all –...
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Article 10 mins
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...classes united against the British. Student demonstrations led to strikes by transport workers supported by trade unions, and morphed into a national general strike that paralysed the country. Rioting broke out in Cairo and other places such as Tanta. British forces opened fire on these demonstrations and killed many people. March 15 1919 saw a massive demonstration in...
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Article 15 mins