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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...social influences of health. However, being healthy is much more than the ‘absence of disease’. It’s about how you feel, how you function in the world around you and how you view yourself and others. A definition of ‘health’ from the World Health Organization is: ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence...
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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...socially stigmatised. Children were once punished for using their left hand to write. The percentage of left-handed people in the USA has grown from around 2-3% at the start of the 20th century, to around 12% today. Handedness is known to be substantially genetically inherited, and there is no evidence that any genetic shift happened over this time. But attitudes did...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...social rank and marital status. One of the unique features of African textured hair is its ability to be sculpted and moulded into various shapes and forms hence, while hair may play a significant role in the lives of people of all racialised groups, for people of African descent, this role is amplified due to the unique nature and texture of *Black hair. Since antiquity,...
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Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe
Nature & Environment

Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe

...social and environmental justice. Instead of rising to this challenge, European decision-makers have ploughed ahead with counter-productive ‘cures’ – austerity and de-regulation. They are cutting public and environmental safeguards and giving more leeway to powerful corporate interests. The EU-US trade negotiations (TTIP) are the perfect example: catering for...
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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

...social context to such activities and this has its own benefits of feeling part of a group and making social contact with others The activities are experienced as meaningful and can lead to the development of new skills, a sense of achievement, responsibility and increased confidence. [Part of a parterre in an English garden.] Having worked as a ‘horticultural...
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Do children exercise less in winter?
Education & Development

Do children exercise less in winter?

...by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, whose funding comes from the British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. The Millennium Cohort Study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. This article was originally published by the Cambridge University research blog...
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Let’s Talk About Uni – a podcast about real student experiences
Education & Development

Let’s Talk About Uni – a podcast about real student experiences

...social aspects of university life - the freshers experience, making friends, living away from home - or indeed, staying at home. University life is not just about study – we share some tips and dispel some myths of the student social experience. Episode 4: Can I afford to go to university? Are you worried about the cost of going to university? In this episode we tackle...
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What is Royal Assent - and why don't laws come into force straight away?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Royal Assent - and why don't laws come into force straight away?

...Social workers needed time so that they could receive training in how they should implement the new principles of making children's welfare a priority, recognising that children are best brought up within their families wherever possible, and promoting partnership between children, parents and the local authorities. Between 1989 and 1991 local authorities and social...
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