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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...human contact, providing them with a “listening ear” if they need one. It might be enough to sit quietly with someone and comfort them if they need it. If someone needs to cry, let them cry. 2. Stay calm and listen If the person wants to speak about what happened to them, then listen. Do not interrupt them, or bombard them with questions. Let them speak at their own...
How did the election look from Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

How did the election look from Europe?

...human rights legislation in the fight against terrorism, arguing that this is just the outcome Islamic State wants for western democracies. In France, the country is focused on their own upcoming parliamentary elections, where the newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, looks set to win a landslide victory. However, there was general agreement that the UK election has...
Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...human assessment. Assuming this technology might be capable of showing that someone has hidden knowledge of events relevant to a crime, should we be concerned about its use? Potential for prejudice Evidence of this sort has not yet been accepted by the English courts, and possibly never will be. But similar evidence has been admitted in other jurisdictions, including...
Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...human rights and involved in destabilising activities across the globe. It is possible to draw from this a comparison with the narcissistic echo chamber that is so often decried in relation to social media, a place where we only read and hear what friends that we share stuff with think. Similarly, it appears that governments like the UK swallow the same tired discourses...
To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...human beings that we value artefacts simply because they have been around for a very long time. We value them for their history; for their story. When they were first constructed, we can imagine them shiny and new. Then over the centuries, they take some knocks, get put to different uses, and eventually end up bearing the patina of age as we see them today. If we...
The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...Humans tend to act in response to a number of primal emotions, and storytelling – especially when used for persuasive purposes – taps into these. The original aim of the government’s narrative was to justify Cummings’s actions by foregrounding one emotional rationale over another. Okay, so maybe he’d bent the rules ever so slightly with his trip (yes, this was a...
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...human mind works. According to Bruner: We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. The mind that drives science, art and sense of self, he said, is not linear and logical, but narrative. People think in stories and are able to imagine the world only through stories. It is an idea that has influenced...
How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?

...humans, we are all susceptible to experiencing anomalous mental states such as this. In everyday life, for example, mentally healthy people distort reality to enhance their self-esteem and maintain beliefs about their self-agency. When faced with negative, ambiguous or unsupportive feedback, we often respond with exaggerated perceptions of control and unrealistic...