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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...research is starting to show that smartphone and multimedia use is related to anxiety and poor cognitive function. So, what can we do to avoid digital-related stress? Here are some top tips for managing wellbeing in the digital age. 1: Go on a Digital Detox [wifi banned/offline ] Whether this means for an hour, a day, a week or longer… try to find time to switch off...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Melt casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Melt casting

...centre toggles, bolts or small hydraulic units. Cycle times are dictated by freeze-off behaviour of polymer, as in injection moulding. Automation can be introduced by arranging moulds on a shuttle table or carousel. Once gate has frozen, extruder can be removed from mould and next mould indexed round. Moulds generally vented or evacuated to avoid back-pressure on the...
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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...centre Jonathan X and the lost souls start their perilous journey to the magic bullet makers. They find one, and demand he tells them where to find the King. Nobody's fools Jonathan X and the lost souls find the King, and confront him about his spell over Roundhey Ward, demanding their release. All are surprised by his response… Roundhay Wing - service users' reactions...
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Imperial Rome and Ostia
History & The Arts

Imperial Rome and Ostia

...of the lavish Pantheon Temple. The Baths of Caracalla Roman baths acted as urban social spaces, like the leisure centres of modern world. This video track explains the routine a Roman might go through upon visiting the baths. The dome of the caldarium This video concludes how the Romans were excellent developers of technology, but not necessarily very inventive....
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Understanding Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Cities

...centres. The wider implications of nature spaces and their representative values. Networking The effects of globalization trends on cities and the relevance and position of entrepreneurship. What do cities have to do to survive? Humanism and cities The impacts of making the city more competitive, and whether this detracts from cities as a purely human space. Cities as...
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Audio 1 hr 50 mins
Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy

...centre of galaxies? Revealing the power source for stars and galactic jets. The Expanding Universe Russell Stannard uses simple analogies to explain difficult concepts. The expansion of space, and the cosmological red-shift, or doppler shift. Geometry of the Universe Russell Stannard explains why standard Euclidean geometry doesn't apply when considering the geometry of...
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Audio 1 hr 21 mins
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...children showing what she thought was a lack of respect. ‘Siobhan’, she said, ‘Don’t you dare say “Black man”, you say “coloured gentleman”’. I took that on board fast – I didn’t fancy being slapped again. I told her that mummy had said that that was the polite way to speak. She pointed out that her skin was not ‘all colours like a rainbow’, but...
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