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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...Writing about LGBT communities has frequently used the concept of 'families of choice' to refer to people who become close due to shared emotional and community (rather than biological) bonds. I personally prefer the term used by Armistead Maupin's wonderful character, Anna Madrigal. She referred to the group who rented rooms at her house in San Francisco as her 'logical...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...writing. A flood provides the climax to George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). The first paragraph of Margery Allingham’s crime novel The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) introduces the smog that hides the killer as he makes his murderous way around the city: ‘The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last, was...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Unlike most prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had experienced Internet infidelity – either having engaged in it themselves or having found out that their partner had indulged. The findings showed that many participants think that the internet makes infidelity more likely....
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The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new ways of dealing with infectious agents because you can be sure there are more pathogens out there, waiting for their moment to come....
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...writing and speaking tasks...Why is memory so important? ‘Working memory’ refers to the very limited number of thoughts we can hold in our minds at once. Working memory is easily overloaded so instead we tend to rely on our memories. For example, drivers don’t have to think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory....
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...writing about how to improve patient care reset the path of geriatrics in the UK and, eventually, more widely in the world. South Asian Heritage is thus woven into the fabric of this most British institution, the National Health Service. Acknowledgement: The study 'Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine', ESRC funded RES -062-23-0514 explored...
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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...Write down these first thoughts before continuing with the task. In the case of an image, try to give a short description. Now watch this six-minute video, which profiles Westmill Wind Farm, a community-owned wind farm that began operations in the south of England in 2008. [SOUND EFFECTS PLAYING] [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING] [TURBINE SPINNING] [MUSIC PLAYING] LIZ ROTHSCHILD...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Розуміння вашої галузі

...Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figure 3: Writing Exams in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figure 4: ©Getty. Picture by Oscar Wong. Figure 5: Creative Director at Buck and Digital Design Grad Ryan Honey Visits VFS in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs