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What does climate change mean for Pakistan?
Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...health. Heat waves raise the irrigation needs of summer crops, increase droughts and contribute to groundwater depletion in the country. Rising average temperatures during pre-monsoon months (March, April and May), during which most of the heat waves are expected to occur in the coming decades, could lead to early maturity of winter crops including wheat, maize, potato...
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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...health and well-being ahead of their occupation compared to before the pandemic took hold. [Photograph of a person responding to a survey screen, asking them "How was your day?"] Kuzior et al. (2022) gave a sobering explanation for this, citing the increased number of what David Graeber (2018) famously described as ‘bullshit’ jobs. Graeber defines these jobs as...
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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...health care system throughout the world” (p4). The report is equally emphatic that the solution does not on the whole lie with blaming individuals, or rooting out incompetent or negligent staff. Sometimes, of course, individuals do need to be held transparently to account, when they have been willfully or recklessly negligent or involved in mistreatment. However, the...
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Codi ymwybyddiaeth a chymorth i ddynion
Health, Sports & Psychology

Codi ymwybyddiaeth a chymorth i ddynion

...Men’s Sheds: promoting male health, wellbeing and social inclusion in an international context’, Health Promot Int., 29(3), tt. 483–93. Sefydliad Iechyd Meddwl (2022) Men and Mental Health. Ar gael yn: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/men-and-mental-health Sands (2021) Sands United. Ar gael yn: https://www.sands.org.uk/sands-united...
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Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...public office and because his administrative failures led to the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1769–1773. He has been described as the ‘worst corporate figure in British history’. The counterargument is that removing statues erases history and Clive deserves to be valorised as the military hero who defeated India’s Mughal rulers, established the supremacy of the...
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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...health care professionals to be supported with relevant practice guidance on pain management understand the value of adopting an individual approach to a child and their family see the benefit of empowering parents to be effectively involved in the management of their child’s pain...Promoting the effective management of children’s pain: 1 Why pain matters - In this...
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...public actually think I took the shots. Now on Life on Earth I think we had something like 15 crews working at various times and I can’t be in 15 places at the same time, so clearly, it’s only a tiny minority in which I can really claim credit for being there at the time and nearly always that would be when I appeared in picture. If I didn’t, the most likely is that...
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The Magic of Meteorites
Science, Maths & Technology

The Magic of Meteorites

...public came forward to report that some of this special space rock had landed on their property, an Open University scientist was quickly on the scene to collect the rare sample; the first UK meteorite in 30 years. The Open University has a long history of analysing rocks from space, whether they be from planets such as Mars, the Moon or asteroids and comets. Along with a...
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