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Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...abundant evidence that poor sleep can have devastating consequences for physical, mental and psychological health. Sleep is not incidental. It is fundamental, a matter of serious public health. Investing in sleep research is not just about the few with demonstrable sleep disorders. It is about everyone. This article was originally published by Mosaic under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 15 mins
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...health and wellbeing while minimising pain and suffering, then humans are not the only species to experience such emotions. So, these three perspectives combine ... assist Green Criminologists in understanding why certain things come to be called criminal and others not. And, indeed, in doing so, open up debate over whether certain harms should be criminalised and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Currently in the UK, 13 families a day suffer the heartbreak of losing their baby before, during or shortly after birth. That’s around 4,500 babies a year. And an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage (Sands, 2023). Yet, while this number reveals the scale of the problem, much less is known about some of the...
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A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
History & The Arts

A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show

...Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in which he challenged her to sign up for Obamacare online before he downloaded every movie ever made. He followed with his trademark technique for exposing hypocrisy, playing a montage of previous clips, this time from Fox News itself in which commentators noted Stewart’s criticism of President Obama on domestic and...
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Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...health care, Black Lives Matter, and environmental justice. The emotional tenor was frequently celebratory, though it varied from one point in the march to another across a crowd reported to be more than 40,000. Many speeches at the rally immediately following the march connected the actions of the Texas state legislature–on whose front steps the march began and...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...health. Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, co-founders of the website Retraction Watch, which detects academic papers withdrawn due to questionable findings, have also reported a claim that jet plane vapour trails contain toxic materials, not just ice crystals. Other questionable studies include those that linked vaccines to autism, a connection that has long been debunked,...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...health is net leverage, defined as the ratio of debt minus cash over total assets. In the first half of our sample, the average net leverage ratio was 12.1 per cent; since 1995, it has been 0.7 per cent. This ratio was negative in most years from 2003 to 2014, indicating that firms had more cash than debt in those years. If we examine asset-weighted averages, which weight...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...health-service spending increases announced in June. But that doesn’t spell imminent disaster, if Japan – where public debt is almost 240% of GDP – is any guide. In fact, if we’re not exporting capital, private sector saving requires government borrowing. So the Treasury may have to keep running deficits so that households can start to pay down their own...
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