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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...systems of children so that stress is triggered much more easily later on, and for longer periods (Perry et al, 1995). An important study by Christine Heim and her associates (Heim et al., 2000) showed that the stress response of women who had suffered childhood abuse (sexual or physical) did indeed show evidence of having been ‘sensitised’. The women in Heim’s...
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What is sleep paralysis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is sleep paralysis?

...system). It is assumed that this paralysis mechanism is in place to stop us acting out our dreams, based on rare cases where the paralysis fails – and patients physically act out the contents of their dreams. A team of Japanese researchers were recently able to induce episodes of sleep paralysis by systematically depriving participants of REM sleep. They found that if...
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Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...system. In the very early days of free-diving, physiologists were pretty convinced that people couldn’t go beyond about 30 or 40 metres. They’d drawn their graphs as scientists and they’d worked out what they saw. They worked out what they understood about the human body and the effects of pressure on it and they said: “Well, look, your lungs are going to be...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...system for providing care during the daytime, but provision of medical and nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-04-23/debates/1AC407C3-56B3-43EE-8CCD-5B179C3AD465/LooeFloodProtectionProject Accessed 20th December 2019 Humphreys, D. (2019) Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate, in ‘Environmental Policy in ......
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...systems of interdependence. It also reveals the ongoing challenges of uneven development. While offering a useful way of exploring the issues facing the West of Ireland, the concepts of uniqueness and interdependence of place can also be applied beyond rural Ireland, with potential for explaining aspects of the geography of multiple locations around the world. Explore the...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...a gift of the gods thus increasing the importance of its presence in ritual events. In modern times scientists will travel the globe in order to recover meteorites as their scientific analysis provides essential information about the formation history of the solar system but clearly in some instances meteorites are also immensely valued as symbolic and sacred objects....
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What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...systems and procedures that discriminate. It means allowing a level of empowerment, in terms of allowing people accountability and responsibility to make the organisation work. And it means finding innovative ways of working that allow people to give of their best whilst actually meeting other kinds of responsibilities that they have other than work." Will Hutton,...
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