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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...human beings are not machines that respond in predictable, impartial ways to their situation and environment(s), so what of the unquantifiable elements of being human? In particular, what account is taken of the emotional component and how it plays a significant part in the experience of health, illness and dying? When someone is dying, the relationship between the health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...human beings, and reinforced by social practices, which includes the belief that some roles and behaviours are more appropriate and suited to certain genders. People are socialised into gender roles within their societies from a very young age. For example, in Western societies, girls were traditionally given dolls and prams to play with, which would strengthen the idea...
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Article 10 mins
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...human, or favour anonymous forces. Central to the approach is a concern with the formation and nature of subjectivities that are set in motion by methods, as well as the social worlds that are created by applying such knowledge of the social. In other words, open methodologies imply that there is no pure, original or universal human, or social. Instead, the knowledges,...
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Article 5 mins
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...human beings to envision forms of care that would entangle people and environments in new ways. At the same time, we were wondering how we might frame empathy as an acquired sensibility in need of ongoing effort and cultivation. These ideas took shape as we were exploring whether different synthetic and organic materials, such as electronic components and twigs, bark and...
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A Letter to Earth
Nature & Environment

A Letter to Earth

...human generations who have been nurtured by them. And who knows how many generations of humans have been raised on this Earth? But one thing we know for sure that for eons and eons, we have received a constant stream of pure love from you. And for this, we are grateful to you, Earth. Let’s not forget that we will need to return you to those from whom we have borrowed...
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Article 10 mins
Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...human genome is transcribed into RNA, but just the 1-2% encodes for proteins. The transcripts lacking the capability to encode for proteins are called non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Based on the aforementioned paradigm, it has been supposed for many years that RNAs were “junk genome”. Emerging evidence indicates that ncRNAs play important biological functions, particularly...
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Article 10 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...human societies have always created data, digital technologies are now gathering it as a speed and volume that is unprecedented historically. Some scholars and campaigners, however, are worried that, while we're very familiar with digital screens and do lots of things with them, most of us are much less aware of the data that they gather, who owns that data, where it goes...
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Article 10 mins
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...human being, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got the right to do it. And as I say, that’s not sounding like a cop out. I think if you want to factor it from the ground up, that’s great and you probably have to ask those questions more seriously of yourself if you’re not doing it, but with certain programmes that just is not the expectation, so if you have got a...
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