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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...study. Many people routinely manage stress by problem-solving in a very active way, but this has not been possible, with many factors being outside the average person’s control. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (also known as ‘ACT’) is a type of psychological therapy that is often used for people who feel ‘stuck’ due to complex life circumstances. Unlike...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...skills, earn reasonable money, grow confident, build families - and still have time for community life from watching affordable football to singing Bach, Handel and Mendelsohn in the chapel down the road from the mill. Margaret Thatcher was strong on preaching "personal responsibility", preferring to attribute her own affluent success to the virtues imbibed in the...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...study of the solid parts of our Earth and the rocks of which it is composed. Like any other science, geology has its own technical language to describe various phenomena. But language is much more than just the words that are used. It is about how the words interact with each other and come together to tell stories. And that is precisely what rocks do; they tell us...
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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...studies, the researchers were trying to find out how cells cope when they can’t accurately repair their DNA using their preferred, homologous recombination toolkit. The scientists studied cells grown in the lab that had been experimentally manipulated so they were forced to use an alternative repair pathway. When they looked closely at the repairs that had been made,...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...studied in the first place More recently, arguments about the validity of historical method Selection and interpretation of evidence At the level of primary research and evidence, historians often find different evidence on the same subject. In some areas of historical inquiry new information causes new conclusions to be drawn and that evidence as well as those...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...studies; to be ‘fluent’ as a supermarket check-out operator is different from being ‘fluent’ as a university student. Overall, the key point here is that ‘fluency’ means different things to different people and while we are often all too eager to pass judgment on the proficiency of those who have traces of complex language learning trajectories in their...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...studies of peoples with very different understandings of the world to Western ones. Canadian Arctic: Acquiring understanding Jean Briggs has worked with the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and has described how, within these communities, growing up is largely seen as a process of acquiring thought, reason and understanding (known in Inuit as ihuma). Young children don’t...
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АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ
Languages

АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ

...Skills Level 1, який доступний в Уельсі. Незважаючи на те, що курс не охоплює всі аспекти сучасної навчальної програми English Essential Skills Level 1, доступної у Англії, у вас буде можливість ознайомитися з порадами та...
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