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

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...based on her extensive experience as a nurse, therapist and manager 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...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...based in its natural resources. The internationally renowned Belleek pottery is founded on clay formed from the kaolin, feldspar and flint on the Belleek estate. The Irish Potato Famine provided labour eager to work and waterpower was harnessed. The clay’s ability to be moulded into intricate, light, translucent but strong shapes quickly proved popular. The Pottery is...
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...based on this ‘weight’. Then you monitor the record matching process for a few years. In that time, you check whether the ‘weights’ (or likelihood, if there is a match) need tweaking. After a few years, you can review the process less frequently. All this talk of records not matching reminds me of the dystopian film ‘Brazil’. The main character is found guilty...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...based on the historic preponderance of English-born people in the Tory vote in Wales and stats which suggested a similar over-representation within the UKIP vote in Wales. Whilst the relevant statistics have not come out yet, there will almost certainly have been a split in the English vote in Wales. Working class in-migrants to places like Denbighshire will have probably...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...based on the work of Guildford and colleagues (Guildford's, 1959). Ideational flexibility - the capacity to generate different ideas Spontaneous flexibility - the capacity to generate a variety of different responses in a situation) and Adaptive flexibility - the ability to switch categories/concepts as an adaption for solving a problem that can otherwise not be solved....
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...based on chemicals obtained from coal tar, a black, viscous by-product of gas production from coal. Initially regarded as a useless and filthy nuisance, coal tar turned out to offer an unimaginably rich treasure trove of chemicals. It’s astonishing that until about 30 years ago, nearly all synthetic dyes were ultimately derived from coal tar (and not only dyes, but...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...based in English-speaking countries have found it easier to outsource manufacturing and services to parts of the world with cheap labour. But Global English has not arisen because of a conspiracy between English-speaking governments or multinationals. Learning English is now seen as being of economic benefit to individuals and national economies in every part of the...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...based on the names of individuals who held some political magistracy such as eponymous archons (chief magistrates in various Greek city states) or who were in religious office. Extrapolating from these individual records, we can provide rough BC dates for the majority of events that take place in Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’. Herodotus counts by generations, for...
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