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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...working in hospice and palliative care for 40 years. I write this from the perspective of a white western European mother, and grandmother. I know there will be people and cultures that will have different views about how we should prepare for death, but in this series of articles, I will be focusing on my thoughts about western practices, especially those I have...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...worked best economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...work as medicines have been supplemented with biochemical analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the...
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How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...working the tall-stack riverboats between Cincinnati and New Orleans: ‘Oh! Susanna’, ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Swanee River’, ‘Old Black Joe’ etc. Jessie returned home to Swansea in 1866 after the end of the American Civil War. She was aged 74 when The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of freed slaves, arrived in town for their first performance at the Craddock...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...work in as a poet. Given this, we might expect her to be quite sceptical about translations of her work. Listen now to the first part where Angus Calder asks what has been lost in Paul Muldoon’s English translation of ‘Ceist ne Teangan’. Is there anything that strikes you as interesting about what Ní Dhomhnaill has to say here? Transcript Show Ní Dhomhnaill is...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...working as a commercial pilot can be an extremely demanding job due to the many stressors – high workload, heavy responsibilities, time pressures, fatigue, noise, and temperature – experienced while transporting thousands of passengers/cargo round the world. Dismukes, Goldsmith and Kochan (2015) outline the stressful situations pilots are exposed to: Emergencies and...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...work we catch repeated glimpses of sympathy for Robert Peel, the views he espoused, and his formative place in the history of Conservatism. The great fault-line that defines many disagreements in modern historical writing runs along the division between the political right and left. In the period since the Second World War, fundamental and often irreconcilable...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...work and what makes it beat? Your heart is a fascinating muscle: It keeps contracting regularly throughout your lifetime, on average 2 billion times, without a rest. This organ ensures that blood is pumped efficiently through the body to provide it with oxygen, whilst removing waste products. To do this, two circular routes of blood flow start from the heart: blood with a...
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