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Sniffing out disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out disease

...out what was wrong with them. This is science fiction, but perhaps we may be getting one small step towards that. We all produce chemicals as by-products of our bodies’ metabolic processes and many of these can exist as a vapour. This vapour can have a smell - body odour and bad breath are examples of that. But sometimes these vapours can hint at something more...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...out in stark contrast to the manufactured sincerity of Tony Blair. Nor did Ken speak of good and evil, but of a real grounded politics. His commitment to diversity and hospitality rang a clear note after a general election, some months previously, in which dismally negative debates about immigration and asylum had been prominent. Nor were these sentiments without a basis...
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Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...out odours can lead to vast and infinite possibilities! In Ancient Greece, around 400BCE, Hippocrates used ‘the art of smell’ to diagnose disease. Today, dogs are being trained to smell for cancer and at least one person can smell Parkinson’s disease. The plant kingdom is also rich in odours that plants use to attract or deter insects. [A field of purple lavender in...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of...
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Out for the count: the mathematics of voting systems
Science, Maths & Technology

Out for the count: the mathematics of voting systems

...out below. Digital ballots Click and drag the ballots to wherever you want on the screen, and even stack them on top of one another. Once you are all set up, proceed on to watch the next video! Print out paper ballots If you have access to a printer and a pair of scissors, you can print out the ballots and cut them out. There should be 11 ballots in total, as well as...
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DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea

...out of the reach of children and animals. [tea bags] What you need: Pyrex test tube (borrowed from a pharmacist or school) 5 tea bags water 2 small saucepans sodium carbonate (washing soda or soda crystals, 2 teaspoonsful) about 250cm3 of corn oil (1cm3 is the same as 1ml) plastic drinking straw wooden clothes peg small sealable plastic bag measuring jug wooden spoon 2...
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A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...out for Doncaster unburdened by the lightest fact concerning the place. [Doncaster races] Doncaster races I I learned nothing of it when there, but I have since learned, from divers trustworthy sources, that Doncaster is the Danum of Antoninus and the Dona Ceaster of the Saxons, and that it is not only on the line of the Northeastern Railway, but also on that famous...
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Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...out from those notes was the heavy use of baby wipes and hand sanitizers in those spaces. For instance, in October 2004 I observed a mother sitting in the children’s section of a Sydney bookstore on a tiny children’s chair with a one-year-old on her lap. Mother and child had the display copy of a touch-and-feel book in front of them. The mother dragged the child’s...
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