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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...HEALTH from the direct dictation of the Deity; yet in England nearly forty years ago Orton had a huge army of devotees and incorrigible adherents, many of whom remained stubbornly unconvinced after their fat god had been proven an impostor and jailed as a perjurer, and today Mrs. Eddy's following is not only immense, but is daily augmenting in numbers and enthusiasm....
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...health, demographic change and wellbeing food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy secure, clean and efficient energy smart, green and integrated transport climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies...
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...wellbeing of their own citizens than those of other nations. Given this, a state may be morally permitted to spend its funds meeting the needs of its own people, even when there are needier people elsewhere. However, even accepting this, the French state is still faced with an ethical dilemma. France, like any other nation, has humanitarian problems within its own...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...health issues. That’s definitely going to be the future.” [Sketch of a cyborg] The concept of enhancement is what distinguishes cyborgism from other medical implantation, or from the ordinary fact of having to wear corrective glasses. This is not about therapeutics or repair, but about augmenting human senses beyond the norm. Despite the distinct gap between cyborg...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...health, particularly to the wellbeing of children, and is a national problem uniting citizens across the land – environmental problems are increasingly scrutinised by watchful Chinese ‘netizens’ (Grano, 2016). Demanding more transparency from government on environmental issues is not perceived as a direct threat by the leadership, and is largely, although not...
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...mental ill health are called upon by journalists to dismiss or “other” female performers’ (Leonard, 2007, p. 69-70). Shadoian’s review casts Joplin in the role of erratic female ‘Other’. It implies that her instinctive musicality as a singer (which, as we have seen, has been constructed as natural and innate for women) needed to be reined in and controlled by...
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...mental list of things to be done: renew the car’s MOT; make an appointment with the health visitor for her toddler’s two-year check-up. And there was the inspection they were facing at the school where Jill worked as a receptionist. The sound of the alarm forced her out of bed and into the shower. Jill managed to leave the house on time, bundling her toddler into the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...mentality of ‘bloody foreigners stealing our fish’. On top of that, the fishing industry has had its expectations raised, probably unfairly, by promises of ‘total control’, exclusion of other fishing fleets, and increases in fishing quota available to them. But can Brexit deliver? Is the fate of the UK fishing industry going to be the litmus test for a successful...