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How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...management options, and enact appropriate regulations. This will result in sustainable and responsible practices which protect the integrity of our soils and ecosystems, ensuring a healthier future for all. What can be done to protect agricultural soil from microplastics? There are several ways in which we can protect agricultural soil from microplastics. One method is to...
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How can I cope with exam stress?
Education & Development

How can I cope with exam stress?

...manage your stress, you can make it through. Teena Clouston has some tips, and you may turn your papers over now...[An exam room] A little stress around exam time can be a good thing, as it motivates you to put in the work. But sometimes stress levels can get out of hand, particularly at the end of an academic year. When you become stressed, the sympathetic branch of the...
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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...manager about other GPs in the practice who have a particular interest in helping patients with mental health issues. 2: Use online or telephone support services [Hands typing on a laptop keyboard] Consider using online or telephone support lines, so that you can communicate about your worries or issues with someone. MIND, the Samaritans, Depression Alliance and others...
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Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?
Nature & Environment

Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?

...managed to ensure areas do not become overgrazed and conflicts with conservation areas are minimised. Mountain forests could be valued more and managed better to capture useful water without the need for costly and vulnerable irrigation systems. And finally farmers could switch to varieties of crops that are better at coping with climate variability. The “Indian...
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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...managing. It is not a single, discrete problem, but a densely interconnected part of a huge web of issues and concerns that change and develop over time and may transform in appearance depending on your viewpoint. When you find yourself in a situation that calls for some kind of analysis or action, see which terms provides the best and most helpful frame for your...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...manages Brian Epstein to give her an audition. One was unsuccessful, but a second led to him offering her a contract. Her first (minor) hit was a cover of a Lennon-McCartney song (Love of the Loved), framed by a rather try-hard press release dubbing her the “bird in a beat-boys” world. But real recording success only came when the pace was slowed to allow her to drape...
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...Management We were promised a debate over economic issues, but what we got for the first hour was protracted sparring between TV interviewers posing gotcha questions hoping to egg on candidates to attack each other and candidates turning the tables by blaming the nation’s problems on a left-leaning media. That was a sorry performance from people on both sides of the...
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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...managers who play a significant part in influencing a grieving employee’s experience of their workplace. The most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues struggle with what to say and how to behave when someone returns to work.Yet even the most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues...
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