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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...writing rather than an optional extra’ (p. 269). Indeed reading, like learning, is a social and collaborative act of participation, as well as an individual one, a point which Goswami also underscores in the CPRT research review into Children’s Cognitive Development and Learning. In order to avoid reading for pleasure becoming little more than a colourful visual laid...
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?

...writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets … saying what they need to say, while they still can. Do this as soon as you can. Ask – am I dying, when will I die, can I stop my medications, what services are available for me and my family and loved ones? What should I or my loved ones expect in the last hours or days before dying? Dying is often a...
Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...Writing for OpenDemocracy, The Royal College of Midwives' Sean O'Sullivan is sceptical...[Royal College Of Midwives Picket The West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth , October 2014] Royal College Of Midwives Picket The West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth in October 2014 The funding crisis that faces George Osborne as he delivers his spending review today is arguably the worst...
Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...writing existed at this time in Egypt to tell us. All we know about their opinion of iron is derived from the contents of their graves. These tell us that iron was rare and found with other high quality grave goods, some of which had been transported long distances. This implies that meteorite iron had a special status and appears to indicate its owners had a high status...
Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...in 2014, Meron Wondemaghen charts how Homeland's portrayal of Carrie Mathison's mental illness deteriorated as the series progressed...When Homeland first aired in 2011 starring a CIA agent with bipolar disorder, Carrie Mathison (played by Claire Danes), it was commended for its realistic portrayals of people with mental illness. Courtney Reyers from The National
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...write Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty in The Resilient Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. “The vision that emerged was of care organizations actively supported and governed by the stakeholders—that is, the users of services, the families of people receiving care, the paid staff and the volunteers.” “Bureaucratic welfare services were...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...writing letter to donor families and recipients Order of St John UK award Donor family network Organisations that provide bereavement support: Cruse bereavement support Compassionate friends supporting bereaved parents and families Child bereavement UK. Key sources NHS Blood and Transplant website The Organ donation law in parts of the UK The family remains at the centre...
A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...writing the light’. This is how we're able to share a view through a lens. Since the first photographs, the technology for keeping images seen through a lens has moved from chemical to electrical, but the questions about how we interpret images are, if anything, becoming more complex to answer. ...it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to...