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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...trouble is that students’ incorrect ideas can lead them to reject what they are taught. Even when teachers provide evidence that the student is wrong, the student will often reject the evidence rather than change their own incorrect theory. This is similar to people refusing to believe in climate change despite overwhelming scientific evidence. This is a phenomenon...
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...troubles the Netherlands faced due to religious divisions and how this nearly led to the collapse of one of the wealthiest countries in the world...You have probably seen those Dutch paintings of gloomy skulls, hourglasses and hurly-burly tables. These vanitas (‘vanity’) paintings were popular and sought-after in 17th century Dutch society. They reminded their viewers...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

In this article Dr Laura Tan gives a fresh mixed-race perspective on having twice the cultures, twice the workload… so it was only right that she had twice the celebration at graduation!...Find out more about The Open University's open degree. I was born in London in the summer of 1991 to an English mother and a Singaporean father. They grew up on opposite sides of the...
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...Troubles' How 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland have shaped the city of Belfast and the lives of some of its inhabitants. Legacy of 'The Troubles' The mental health implications of a divided society: at the time of the Peace Process, Belfast still carries a psychological burden which crosses generations, genders, and communities. Bronwyn's story Mentally ill or coping in...
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What was the Easter Rising?
History & The Arts

What was the Easter Rising?

...come to achieving the aims of its leaders?...Ireland has a long and troubled past. Not always on the best of terms with its British neighbour, armed struggle has been a recurring feature in the island's history. But how close did a group of republicans come to independence from the United Kingdom? [What was the Easter Rising? - The arts past and present (3/6)] Transcript...
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Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...trouble began. Polyneices is the brother of Antigone, Ismene and Eteocles. His name means ‘many troubles’, and he’s generally remembered as ‘the bad brother’, because he attacked Thebes with a foreign army. While Eteocles was buried with full ritual honours, Polyneices was left as carrion for the crows, in punishment for the vile crime of assaulting his own...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...troubled and troublesome people in our society. The welfare of some of those most in need is missed, neglected or ignored and it only becomes highlighted as a problem when these same people are imprisoned. A large number of the people we send to prison have grown up in care homes; experienced abuse as a child or witnessed familial violence; can barely read or write and...
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Three Tort law cases you should know
Society, Politics & Law

Three Tort law cases you should know

...trouble with the law? Discover how a series of tweets put Katie Hopkins in hot legal water... Transcript Thompson-Schwab and Another v Costaki and Another: The Tort of Private Nuisance If the enjoyment of your home is affected by a neighbour’s activities have you got a case for the Tort of Private Nuisance? Yes, might be the obvious answer, but what if the activities...
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