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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...social duties. [White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon.] White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon. The images above are from the Met Museum's open access / public domain resources. Reincarnation Not all Ancient Greek accounts of the afterlife viewed the Underworld as...
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...social policy, University of Salford The budget reflects the Conservatives’ long term policy commitment to increasing owner-occupied housing. Young people were encouraged to save to buy their own home through the introduction of Lifetime ISAs, and more land was released for developments to sell to first-time buyers. The chancellor also pledged £120m to tackle...
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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...social media news coverage, but we may remain disconnected to the fundamental moral lessons their stories could teach us today. [Novaya Zemlaya] Map of Novaya Zemlaya A poignant example of a modern-day fable is the story about a sloth of 52 polar bears ‘overrunning’ the Siberian town Belushya Guba. Beluysha Guba is a settlement with a human population of around 2500...
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex workers have...
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Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...Social withdrawal, always doing things on their own, becoming isolated Lack of self-care or a tendency to display risky behaviours in public A sense of hopelessness or feeling overwhelmed An individual who displays more than one could lead the observer to suspect that the pilot may be at risk of deteriorating mental health (SkyBrary). Emotional – Pilots who are...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...social and physical mobility, foreign and domestic investment and increased racial, communal and political unrest, especially after the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh on 16 December 2012, three weeks before my fieldwork began, which was followed by national and international outcry and unprecedented protests. The mediatisation and public imagination of this...
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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...social factors we investigate here...This free course, Physical activity: a family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psycho-social factors we investigate here....Physical activity: a family affair: Introduction - For...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...social relations. The way that empires were established and maintained required the exercise of different forms of power: from military conquest and violent suppression to cultural hybridity and ‘philanthropic’ investment. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future’ by Diego Rivera, murals at Palacio Nacional, Mexico City....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs