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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...care?...As we move towards the referendum on membership of the EU, British citizens face a bewildering array of claims and counterclaims. The conventional wisdom is that the voting public will favour the ‘status quo bias‘. Unfortunately, we seem to be living in times when established wisdom no longer holds. While the campaign to ‘remain’ part of the EU has enjoyed...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...care). This is particularly meaningful when empathy in some groups may be on the decline (Konrath, O’Brien and Hsing, 2011) and, meanwhile, the arts and humanities are marginalised in school curricula, and arts and culture threatened by local authority funding cuts. Find more research at artscog.co.uk. Author: Rose Turner References Barras, C. (2013) Reading literary...
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...caring responsibilities at home. We also know that a higher-than-average percentage of students on A227 (38% this year) have declared one or more disabilities. Taken together, these issues raised two key questions for the department: What challenges to students and staff may have been created in attempting to create a paradigm shift in understandings of ‘religion’ as...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...care but does not express those overtly. Internalising is a particularly important concept to understand in autism, as some autistic people tend to internalise their difficulties, meaning that their needs may not be detected as early as the needs of autistic people who present with a more externalising profile and accompanying learning disabilities, for example. The...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...adult education. Basic education comprises pre-school education, six years of primary schooling; three years of junior secondary schooling and then three years of senior secondary schooling. The numbers involved are huge: 192,000,000 children enrolled in over 400,000 primary and secondary schools with 10,000,000 teachers. Pre-school education is becoming increasingly...
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The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...adults it is most prevalent in the developing foetus, leading some to suggest that its dreams act as a cinema: the brain is kept active to stop it becoming bored, either during sleep or with the relative lack of external stimulation within the uterus. Try proving that one. Sleep inertia That's the scientific name for the grogginess felt after waking. One to five minutes...
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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...Careful. SCARLETT [HUMMING] GRANDMOTHER Look, there’s a lot more down there, isn’t. SCARLETT These are your ones. GRANDMOTHER Those are my ones. Why are they my ones, Scarlett? SCARLETT Well, these are big. GRANDMOTHER Oh, they’re big because they’re my ones, OK. Put them in the bucket. SCARLETT [INAUDIBLE]. Scarlett, father and grandmother Watch the ‘Scarlett,...
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A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...care haunt me, I throw it off the scent in Spenser's forests, or seek refuge from it among Shakspeare's men and women, who are by far the best company I have met with, or am like to meet with, on earth. I am sitting at this present moment with my curtains drawn; the cheerful fire is winking at all the furniture in the room, and from every leg and arm the furniture is...
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