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From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...system overwhelmingly designed to treat illness – rather than preventing it in the first place – is inevitably going to struggle. There are, however, other models of care. Models underpinned not by a search for cures, but by a desire to care. [A woman having a wellness massage] Anyone who has ever looked after a small child will be familiar with the natural human...
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...system but it is much easier to sleep it off. The older we become, the more worn out our bodies and brains get and sleep does not really get better as we grow older. With increasing age, our metabolism slows down, making food processing last longer and become a more energy consuming process. Food processing isn’t the only thing affected by ageing though. The way our...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors. People who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs. In this series of articles we explore how COVID-19 impacts on cancer patients and their treatment. Read on to explore how COVID-19 affects cancer patients at different stages of their...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...system for those needs. Disputes with a school over the education, special needs or behaviour of the child, in some cases resulting in ‘off-rolling’ or exclusion. Between 2018 and 2020, I conducted research with 99 families, of whom almost three-quarters had intended for their children to be school educated. Parental expectations of schools Parents’ hopes for their...
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Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...System exploration, in which Jupiter’s enigmatic ocean moon Europa will be front and centre. Here we look at what two upcoming missions hope to achieve and why this is important for space scientists and astrobiologists...Europa was first glimpsed up-close by the Pioneer and Voyager probes in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until the Galileo mission in the 1990s and early...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...systems have concerns about the sanctity of life, respect and care for the family, community and others. This may be enshrined in a moral code, or practices connected with food or dress or festivals. Much of this practice will be positive for a child, giving meaning to births, coming of age, marriages or deaths in the family. Many people turn to religious beliefs and...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...systems proved to be highly effective and useful in specific domains; they proved to be as good, or even better than humans in making decisions within specific areas of knowledge. An AI designed for diagnosing childhood diseases or for viewing seismic data used in oil exploration would not be useful in other areas of knowledge. Optimism about the potential for artificial...
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Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...system in need of reform by and for its female members. More than this, Tomasin becomes one of the gruesome hags who have murdered her baby brother. In this respect, The Witch echoes old misogynist fairy tales, which often feature actual or attempted infanticide, as much as it revels in the witch’s power to destroy an authoritarian patriarch. Eggers’ complex depiction...
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