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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...world around me and this beautiful family I desperately wanted to be part of, but I couldn’t. The thoughts and voices kept me trapped and isolated.' For some parents, thoughts can feel overwhelming, frightening, or out of control. Others may hear voices, experience intrusive images, or feel watched or followed. These experiences are deeply distressing, and parents who...
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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...world We talk to Sue Stocklmayer from the Australian National University about the joys and pitfalls of international science communication; and to Rough Science's Dr Jonathan Hare about his research into Buckmeinsterfullerene. We also return to the SCHOME project (from Programme 5) and meet the students involved - in the real world! The interviews are recorded by OU...
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The Truth of Ghost Stories
History & The Arts

The Truth of Ghost Stories

...world: imagination, superstition and the supernatural. But I think that fictional ghost stories are deeply concerned with truth, not necessarily the truth of whether ghosts exist, but with emotional and moral truths. [Book cover of Almost a Ghost Story by Emily Bullock, featuring an atmospheric design.]When writing my new novel Almost a Ghost Story, I discovered halfway...
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Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...world, from West Africa to Southeast Asia. This phenomenon came to be known as “closing the Gate of Ijtihad,” to indicate that there is no theological space for new creative juridical thinking. There was, of course, no “Gate of Ijtihad” to be closed, and nobody had the authority to close the gate even if one had existed. The metaphor, however, highlighted the...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...world making of them? Writing in the New Yorker, Pankaj Mishra suggests that Donald Trump is fulfilling a prediction made by Rousseau: Rousseau’s rejoinders to cosmopolitan commercialism have constituted the basic stock-in-trade of cultural and economic nationalists worldwide. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, which is busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites”...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...world wars in the 20th century came come closer together to cooperate, this placed the Irish-British conflict – symbolised by the border and partition - into a new context. Then the peace process began with the 1994 IRA ceasefire and the signing of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in 1998. Improved relations and increased cooperation between the British and Irish...
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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...world but no cars, and to this day I don't understand why. Sometimes an idea that's perfectly viable doesn't happen even though people have the technology, have the means of doing it – it just doesn't happen, it just comes along too early in some respects." It was the invention of the internal combustion engine that saw what economists call the introductory phase of the...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...worlds, very different to Earth. I want to explore those alien worlds, to understand what they mean for the potential for life and what they can tell us about our own origins. If we find that the icy moons, the ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus, don’t have any life and never did, that tells us something. It tells us that our understanding of how life originates is...
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