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Post-Brexit, some banks consider their options
Money & Business

Post-Brexit, some banks consider their options

...change matters? Frankfurt is a natural choice for many banks. The German city is home to the European Central Bank, the Bundesbank, as well as the European Insurance authority. The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority hosted 50 representatives from some of the world's biggest banks on Monday to explain the steps required to set up a business in Germany. "As...
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Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness

...change with the season, the smells that meet your nose, how the temperature feels on your skin and savour being in that particular moment. Transcript This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage. Like this? Try...
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Do boys need male role models?
Education & Development

Do boys need male role models?

...changing social contexts. The evidence that boys growing up without fathers are necessarily harmed is also unconvincing. Reviews of research on fatherhood over years suggest there is very little about the gender of the parent that appears distinctly important. Indeed, they reveal instead common factors in positive father and mother involvement or care. Of course boys, and...
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Strange coloured teeth; strange coloured bones
Science, Maths & Technology

Strange coloured teeth; strange coloured bones

...change appears to have been brought about by heating following the incorporation of the metal manganese (oxidizing it to the Mn5+ valence state, which forms blue-coloured salts). This mechanism also appears to explain the origins of turquoise-like ivory (odontolite) acquired from deposits of fossilized mastodon teeth and used decoratively in the Middle Ages. You can read...
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Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...change needs to be more balanced and bidirectional in a modern-day partnership. Such an approach revises the colonially rooted dismissal of the value of cultural and epistemological diversity and the need for corresponding adaptations of pedagogy, especially in international educational partnerships. More broadly, the possibility to develop a shared understanding of...
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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...Changes in personality or mood Depression Can I reduce the risk of getting dementia? About a fifth of people think it's impossible to reduce their risk of dementia. However, there is a vast amount of evidence showing seven simple lifestyle choices that can help prevent the onset of dementia. Regular exercise - just 30 minutes of walking, swimming or everyday workouts such...
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...changing established wage policies. There is a commonsense assumption that persists that too much government intervention or dramatic policy solutions are counterproductive. How could, for instance, a country afford to implement such measures? To challenge such doubt, countries are trying out for themselves these new measures to reverse wage stagnation—often with...
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HeadStart Classical Studies
History & The Arts

HeadStart Classical Studies

...change and transformation that Ovid tells in this poem ask big questions, like ‘how did the world begin?’, ‘what makes humans human?’ and ‘should we eat animals?’. You will discover how Ovid’s mythical stories help us to answer these big questions by reading them alongside texts from ancient Pacific Islander myths to poetry by the contemporary
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