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Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle

...hefyd ar gael yn Saesneg. | This article is also available in English. Astudiaeth bellach gyda'r Brifysgol Agored: Mwy o gyfleoedd dysgu am ddim ar OpenLearn: Deunydd darllen pellach Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Trwsio’r meddwl – manteision ‘dos o natur’ ar gyfer iechyd meddwl Rhagnodi Cymdeithasol | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...English until the early nineteenth century. The Jesuits who wrote the reports and the scholars who read them did not recognize that the religions they encountered in China, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand were somehow the same. Each had its own indigenous term for “Buddha” and each had its own artistic conventions for representing him. His portrayal as an idol and as a...
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...English women’s recreational cricket: a critique of the liberal “absorption” approach to gender equality’, Managing Sport and Leisure, 22(1), pp. 54–69. Moreshead, S. (2018) ‘Who on earth is The Hundred for? We try to identify the ECB's mysterious “new audience”', The Cricketer. Available at:
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...middle-aged, male and English) to the multicultural mix of today. Cinema might be the ‘dream factory’ or a culture industry of mere entertainment. It might be our rational, conscious, objective stories we tell ourselves, or our dreams and nightmares - but we always need these representations to help construct our identities, past and present, and to understand them....
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...English mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. Penrose based his set of tiles on Pentagons, which are difficult to tile, even with other shapes. Penrose incorporated the same disruptive properties of the pentagon to create two tiles that form an aperiodic set. This set of Penrose tiles uses a thin rhombus and a fat rhombus. Ordinarily, rhombus-shaped tiles can be used to...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...English style of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers. In Chandler's case his model was Classical and Elizabethan tragedy. No coincidence his detective was called Marlowe - he was explicit about this in his essays. He thought only the detective genre could tackle the realities of modern life and the struggle for truth against compromise which true literature engaged....
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...English colonisation of Ireland and associated religious conflicts in the 17th century. These conflicts are still simmering below the surface and there is widespread worry that it would not take much to resurrect them (like a hard border for instance). Two solutions to the border issue have been suggested. One involves having a soft border arrangement whereby commodity...
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...English schools are added to the mix, together with remodelling and the changes to the 14 – 19 phase. For details of the bursar's key role in this process visit Bursar's role in remodelling [accessed 26 January 2007]. Admittedly, there is no ‘one size fits all’ business manager (or bursar) role. The position and responsibilities vary immensely between schools. So,...