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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...change in order for flesh to be produced.” No blood, no chance of a baby. Today, we know that the placenta keeps an unborn baby’s blood supply separate and provides oxygen and nutrients to the baby via the umbilical cord. 3. Losing a pint of blood was ‘normal’ How much blood were women expected to lose? Today a “normal” period is expected to be around 80ml, or...
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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...changing environment, requiring constant reattunement and empathic work. Our prototype serves as an example of research that draws on design and geography to enquire into environmental futures. Such ‘thinking through making’ can be demanding, because the method of finding out about a thing, the thing itself and the concepts employed to interpret the thing emerge at...
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Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...changing face of ‘fake news’ and the post-truth world "TRUTH Social… encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology". This is the mission statement for the new social media platform announced by Donald Trump in October 2021. Its name has raised a few eyebrows given the track record that its founder has when...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...change will this produce?', 'Will I be paid?') but these are seldom acknowledged in the standard Methods section of a paper or article. Instead, accounts of participant recruitment and obtaining informed consent are recited as if these are smooth, even mechanical procedures, within the researcher's control. Similarly, discussions of interview data tend to imply that talk...
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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...changes to housing? The study also found that access to good quality public and active (walking, cycling) transport on the other hand, seems to have a protective effect. So too does living somewhere with access to community centres and natural spaces. These are all aspects of people’s neighbourhoods which seem to help them to have casual interactions – bump into...
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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...change what you are doing. You will have a lot to learn too. Be happy if something unexpected happens. Don’t be constrained by a traditional curriculum. Use a variety of resources, media and activities that engage all the senses. Further reading Rix, J., Hall, K., Nind, M., Sheehy, K. and Wearmouth, J. (2009) ‘What pedagogical approaches can effectively include...
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Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity
Nature & Environment

Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity

...change from between several million people (Hutchison et al., 2006) prior to the colonisation to between 180,000 and 350,000 people today (Pinheiro, 2004). Causes include the spreading of European and African diseases - to which native people had no immunity - alcohol consumption, proxy wars, slavery, displacements and removal (Burnett, 2002; Hemming, 1978; Whitehead,...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre
Society, Politics & Law

The Tulsa Race Massacre

...change. A new public inquiry (which reported in 2001) was launched, corroborating the claim of state complicity with white supremacism. More recently the portrayal of the massacre in two HBO series – Watchmen, broadcast in late 2019, and Lovecraft Country, broadcast in 2020 – resulted in renewed national and international attention. There have been numerous...
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