28 mins / Age 14-19/ 2010
Taking Bangalore as a case study we look at the causes of urban poverty, including urbanisation and push pull factors of rural to urban migration. We then visit Bangalores slums to see the impacts of this poverty. The programme provides visual examples of poverty indicators, including: poor [...]
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Parents know a nightly bedtime is not always easy to enforce. But researchers say bedtime rules may improve a child’s development. A new study found better results in four-year-olds who go to bed around the same time every night and sleep at least [...]
Kids are asked, “why do you want that skin color?” Renowned child psychologist and University of Chicago professor Margaret Beale Spencer, a leading researcher in the field of child development, led the study. She designed the pilot study and led a team of three psychologists: two testers to execute the study and a statistician to [...]
Overcoming the serious weaknesses exposed by the global economic crisis will not be easy and will require a major overhaul of the machinery for international finance, aid and trade, according to a new United Nations report released today.
The World Economic and Social Survey 2010 notes that getting ‘back on track’ will require significant reforms in [...]
“When Love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the Sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.’
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Film following three year old girl from the Dominican Republic, one of the 135 girls taking part in Plan’s Cohort Study which charts the experience of girls growing up in the poorest communities in the world. Now in its third year, the study ‘Real Choices, Real Lives’ will follow the girls [...]
True-life accounts from witnesses of a changing Himalayan ecosystem.
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Melanie Dreher, RN, PhD, FAAN explains her cannabis and pregnancy research study in Jamaica. Pregnant women and their children were studied for over ten plus years, both marijuana smokers and non-smokers were included in the study. One of the first scientific studies of the effects that cannabis may have on pregnancy and the [...]
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Love is such a difficult realty to grasp, in this clip Paul Chek tackles the ultimate of all subjects, how something comes from no-thing and how love is like sculpter’s clay with which all thoughts and emotions can be expressed.
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In this clip Paul Chek expands on how your thoughts, feelings and emotions have power, structure and influence in your life – for better or worse. Learn more about how to recognize and control what’s going on in your head and how to make it work in your favor at Paul Chek’s PPS [...]
