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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...care about it. I started to think that I will never understand his thought process, and this conversation will get very difficult, but I persevered with my views and questions, even knowing our friendship could be very much over. For the third time I brought up Jas’s family. I mentioned his sister (who is also a friend of mine), explaining that she would never have lied...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...careful and straightforward observations, which is what makes it such a powerful tool. There are lots of different genres to read too. By reading a sedimentary rock, you might learn about vast oceans that have since dried up. Metamorphic rocks can tell you the biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano....
Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...care altogether. This aversion to being interviewed by mental health professionals, as suggested by Bor et al. (2002), further complicates the investigation of the relationship between life stress, performance, and mental wellbeing among pilots. Like athletes, pilots can be on a high-performance pathway where life is often unbalanced and “the rigour of training and...
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...care. [Nurse NHS] Although some areas such as emergency medicine, paediatrics and psychiatry have almost always been on the list of shortage specialties and are allowed to recruit internationally, shortages are now more widespread. Moreover, the cap on Tier 2 visas (previously the Work Permit category) from outside the EEA to a maximum of around 20,000 per year across all...
Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...careful when you get home. Remember what happened to Agamemnon …". At home Odysseus' son Telemachus is - somewhat slowly - growing up, and he is enjoined: "Do be worthy of your father. Remember how Orestes …" Now to Oedipus in Homer. His single appearance in the Odyssey is in Book 11, where Odysseus visits the Underworld, and there meets, among others, the spirit of...
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...cares anymore about recognising its special status as a former member state or great power. Especially if it uses as a bargaining chip the threat of a race to the bottom on such policies as corporate taxation, the continent’s willingness to cut it slack will swiftly diminish. This would be freeriding in its purest form and represent an admission that the UK has...
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...careful reading and studying. But when I got him to read again the passage from Shakespeare with the interlardings, he perceived, himself, that books couldn't teach a student a bewildering multitude of pilot-phrases so thoroughly and perfectly that he could talk them off in book and play or conversation and make no mistake that a pilot would not immediately discover. It...
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...cares and is actually fighting for them. Training in conveying emotions through body language and tone of voice could help Clinton in the next debate and public speaking in general. By contrast, Trump looked like he truly cared about the economy. Right out of the gate, he spoke to the emotions of voters by expressing concerns about jobs leaving the U.S. Despite the lack...