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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...learn from adversity experienced. For example, Fletcher and Sarkar (2012), in a study of Olympic champions, reported that most of the athletes interviewed argued that had they not experienced certain stressors, and adversities, they would not have won their gold medals. Perhaps one Olympic example that illustrates this effectively was Andy Murray’s ability to take the...
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...learning Spanish from the cradle. Though he is in the bilingual track at Bradley Middle School in San Antonio’s North East Independent School District, he mainly speaks English with his school friends. His parents came to the US from Mexico before he was born. His father, Liborio Reynoso, says seeing his son compete in their native language is a massive point of pride....
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...learned in this study and how that is related to what the media picked up. Where it started The motivation of this work was a Nature paper by Rob DeConto and David Pollard in 2016 who predicted up to ten times higher sea level contributions from Antarctica at the end of this century than previous estimates. Maybe not completely surprisingly, this had a huge impact and...
Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...learning about them, thereby positively affecting wellbeing (Pocock et al. 2023), and the UK Government has now embedded awareness and care for nature into our school curriculum. Due to modern lifestyles, we have a lack of exercise in our daily routine and are therefore becoming increasingly sedentary. This leads to various health issues that are becoming more frequent,...
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...learn that you can be involved in education even if you’re not a teacher. There are a range of ways that you can do that without being employed in a school, college or university, including as a school governor or getting involved with your school’s parent-teacher association. Positions like these usually don’t need any kind of special qualifications, and most often...
How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...learn their songs. A preface to the music reads: ‘Its unique origin, and that the melodies are never composed, but spring into life… and rare occurrence of triple time, or three-part measure… to be found in the beating of the foot and the swaying of the body.’ The Fisk Jubilee Singers sang with concert hall authority, so different from minstrelsy that was the...
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...learned their skill from their parents and would typically only use a small number of plants and would only claim to be able to help one or two types of affliction. The old herbals in this country were to some extent originally compilations of such information. Traditional healers around the world have learned to find plants within their immediate environment that help to...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...learn to advocate for herself to get the learning experiences that she needed. As a qualified registered NA, she encourages anyone who is interested in a patient facing role to consider the NA programme. Amy has recently started a transfer to nursing programme, again as an apprenticeship. Caroline’s story [A photo of Caroline]Caroline (pictured left) had been working in...