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Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...students of Greece and Rome get to read about dangerous spellbinding crones in the original Latin (for instance on the language module Continuing Classical Latin). The avid letter-writer Pliny (2nd century CE) relishes relating an episode about a haunted house and the discovery of a skeleton in chains waiting for a decent burial. In the racy novel Satyricon a werewolf...
Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...become a regular in the media since her impressive US Open win in 2021 at the age of 18 years, where she was the first British woman to win a Grand Slam event since 1977. One recent topic of conversation has been Raducanu’s ‘carousel of coaches’ (Fuller, 2022) and discussions of how she has worked with four coaches since Wimbledon last year. There has been...
Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines

...become widely acknowledged as being critical to all of us, helping to protect us from mental ill health. But what exactly do we mean by self-care and what does it look like in practice? Although this may seem obvious for maintaining mental health, it is something we can all be prone to forgetting to do, especially as we struggle to cope with the changes and uncertainties...
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...become global religions? Hilde Capparella, a PhD research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African...
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...become “vanishingly small”, but the chances of exceeding 7°C will increase and could become more likely than not within the next century. The authors see very little chance that global sea level rise will slow down, and every chance that it will accelerate. The only question is by how much. “While an increase of somewhere between 40cm and 1m looks likely this...
What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...become increasingly indistinguishable from humans, the series explore notions of what it is to be human: societally, culturally, and psychologically. The second series was particularly concerned with the rights associated with being able to think and feel – and the right to a fair trial. Odi, an outdated NHS caregiving Syth who features in both seasons, chooses a form...
Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...become bilingual and largely follows the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Article 14 stipulates that “The inscription of words on informative signs […] in countries not using the Latin alphabet shall be both in the national language and in the form of a transliteration into the Latin alphabet reproducing as closely as possible the pronunciation in the...
Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...becoming a normal feature of the cultural calendar. In fact, research shows that over three-quarters of people in the UK have heard of Veganuary. But its rapid expansion may be surprising. The brainchild of its founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover, Veganuary began with just 3,300 sign-ups in 2014. Since then, it’s mushroomed (no pun intended!) to 1.8 million people...