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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...asylums and so did not seem so appropriate in the age of ‘care in the community’. So it is interesting that we now seem to have come full circle with the benefits of working outdoors being increasingly recognised by researchers. The time may be right to promote ‘green care’ to health commissioners and practitioners concerned to find more ways of helping vulnerable...
World in transition: Migration and Trade
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Migration and Trade

...refugees are using the internet to keep up to date with events, at home and in the Uk, and to help campaign for change for Ethiopians. Challenges faced by Ethiopians in London A look at the a challenges Ethiopians are facing in London and how they are coping with them. Moving to England Two Sierra Leonean women on their experiences of arriving in England, and their...
Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?

...seeker”.​ [Mother and son selfie] Parenting pressures Happy family photos and status updates in digital spaces are more complex than the phenomenon of sharenting would imply. Posts respond to a number of relational concerns around online sharing within the normative parameters of social acceptability. As some of the mothers in the study note the ‘happy family’ and...
Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...refugee from Somalia. This week, the lawyer and father of two was elected to Canada's parliament, the first-ever member ever of Somali descent. “I think it really breaks new ground,” he says. “It shows that Canada is one of the greatest countries in world where you can integrate quickly into the mainstream and be all you can be.” Hussen will represent the York...
Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...refugees in neighbouring countries, now has 22 underground clinics in Syria. These care for some of the millions of Syrians living in hard-to-reach parts of the country and the 800,000 living in besieged areas, cut off from medical aid and supplies, electricity, telephone lines and food aid. Ingenuity and resourcefulness are core to these clinics, says Zaher Sahloul, SAMS...
How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target
Society, Politics & Law

How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target

...refugees to come to Europe. These fanatical individuals who abuse religion will not win this war because they will not make us give up what we are. Because we are the targets, we are the soldiers of our own way of life. Continuing to go out, to travel and to live life to the full is a peaceful way of responding to these attacks.[The Conversation] This article was...
Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...refugee in New York, working as journalist and editor 1951 publishes The Origins of Totalitarianism; becomes an American citizen 1958 publishes The Human Condition 1961 publishes Between Past and Present April - stays in Jerusalem to cover Eichmann trial (pictured right) 1962 June - Eichmann hanged 1963 February-March - “Eichmann in Jersualem” published in five...
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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...seekers - The Second Vatican Council and radical Protestantism were both ‘elite’ or ‘top-down’ efforts towards innovation. However, a further kind of innovation – which was to influence both Christian and non-Christian religious beliefs and practices – was bubbling away at a grassroots level in the 1960s, both inside and outside traditional Christianity. We...