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Exercising at 50
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercising at 50

...educating on the correct posture whilst strengthening the core musculature that surrounds and protects your spine. As strength-based exercises, training should be performed at least twice a week. However, you can work on achieving good posture by thinking about it more regularly. In summary, as we get older we need to focus more on physical activity to increase our life...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...education, a distinguishing characteristic was its breadth. He studied classics and history at school; philosophy and biology at university. He was equally at home in the worlds of literature and science. And one of the great features of his theory is that it links our biological being with the meanings that constitute our experience. Becoming a great scientist was...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...educated school child of today ought to have as a world view, it is very different from what it was when I was a child, or even when my children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...educated at a convent near Ravenna, Italy, where, at age five, she died of a fever. Byron arranged for the body to be sent back to England, with a degree of pomp in its final leg that was to foreshadow Byron’s own funeral procession (Byron himself died in Greece exactly two years to the day after Allegra). Allegra’s little coffin was transported from the dock in...
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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...educational activities. You can find these on the What’s On section of the website, or you can contact them directly by sending an email to info@theparkstrust.com or phoning the office. But you don’t need to live in Milton Keynes to get the benefits of these activities. You can care for your memory in very simple ways such as taking a walk and noticing things along...
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Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...Education Review, 13 (3), pp.369-384. Eccles, J. A., Futterman, T., Goff, R., Kaczala, S., Meece, C., & Midgley, J. (1983). Expectations, values, and academic behaviors. Achievement and achievement motivation, 283-331. Eccles, J. S. (1993). School and family effects on the ontogeny of children's interests, self-perceptions, and activity choices Nebraska Symposium on...
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The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...education and lower taxes on the mass of poverty-stricken peasantry. 1905 Partition of Bengal. First attempted break up of a province of India by the British colonial government. This is a response to the primarily Bengal-based rising nationalist movement that was challenging colonial rule. New Muslim-majority province of ‘East Bengal and Assam’ created alongside the...
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