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Category: Health
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How healthy are you? Have a go at this interactive quiz on diet, physical activity and lifestyle choices and see if you need to make some personal changes.
Category: Health
Alan Partridge's trick of taking an extra-large plate to an all-you-can-eat buffet might be putting his long term health at risk. New research links tableware size with the tendency to eat too much.
Category: Health
Community member Lyndon raised a question about the causes of childhood obesity
Category: Health
Should we talk about size in therapy? Does your weight impact on your wellbeing? Psychotherapist and OU PhD student, Michelle Oldale, tells us what the research shows...
Category: Psychology
Join the discussion: How do we know that genes influence how much weight we gain, surely people differ in how much food they eat and how much they exercise?
Category: Biology
Spot the unusual terminology in Bang's 'Crowd Pressure' episode? Stephen Serjeant and Ian Johnston explain how scientists sometimes abbreviate units when talking to each other
Category: Physics
We tend to take gravity for granted, don’t we? In this video we explore whether helicopters can be weightless.
Category: Physics
Can we really expect jurors to fully understand the intricate and complex workings of the legal system? Should we really burden members of the public with the responsibility of resolving our criminal and civil disputes - or would we be better having a panel of experts? And what about expert witnesses? After so many recent miscarriages of justice, how much weight should be given to the testimony of such witnesses? Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of the Times, discuss whether jurors and expert witnesses are suited to roles they undertake.
Category: Law