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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...public about environmental issues. While Iceland certainly has other practices that are environmentally unsound (for example selling meat products and using refrigeration requiring energy that produces carbon dioxide), their advert ought to be commended for drawing attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding. By squashing the Iceland advert, Clearcast is playing into...
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Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'
Society, Politics & Law

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'

...public to recognise the seriousness of domestic violence. Journalist Lucy Hunter Johnston believes “a convicted rapist couldn’t be a teacher, doctor or police officer”. Shouldn’t “sports star” be among this list as well, given that “boys look up to footballers, not their Dads” and the link between major football tournaments and an increase in domestic...
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Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an ocular melanoma. The radiation and lasering to remove the tumor ultimately left me blind in that eye. But though ocular melanomas...
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Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?
Education & Development

Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?

...health inequalities issue. While the idea of tackling this head on and talking to boys in schools sounds good in practice, from my experience as an educational sexual health worker in central Manchester it is difficult to discuss sensitive issues such as menstruation with boys and young men. The overriding responses tend to be that girls get “moody” or “smell...
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Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...health and wellbeing, with further support from the MIND website. Worries around finances also often impact on our mental health, in many ways it's a vicious circle. If you feel this is impacting on you, it's worth listening to the first reframing redundancy podcast and explore managing your finances on a reduced income with links to organisations who can provide advice...
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David Lucey
Education & Development

David Lucey

...health, Starting with psychology, Coping in isolation: Time to Think and An introduction to crime and criminology... all interesting topics that I wanted to learn more about.’ And that was one of the reasons he turned to OpenLearn in the first place because, as he explains ‘...it offers a wide range of courses that were simply unavailable at my local education centre....
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The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...public. The campaign has turned on economic arguments about personal advantage and often on an ill-concealed dislike of foreigners. The strengths of Europe in relation to human, workplace and family rights and the benefits of diversity get very little mention. The debate hasn’t changed UK politics but it’s brought out some of the nastiness in our political life –...
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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...public lecture from 2013 and a brief clip from ITV news. 'The vomit comet' builds on ELPIS, the European Life and Physical Sciences in Space research programme faciliatated by ESA, the European Space Agency. You can read more about ESA's parabolic flights and how they are conducted. Video 3: Bed Rest Fancy lying down for 6 months? This 60-second clip, narrated by David...
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