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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...central to maintaining levels of autonomy which may have to be delegated to someone else whether in a personal home or by moving to a care home. Here, the meaning of home may not change rather how a person’s status is perceived may change. In communal residential settings the needs of a work environment can outweigh the ability of a person to maintain personal identity....
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...central message. While scholars have traditionally relied upon Plato's Dialogues as a source for information on the historical Socrates, Plato's contemporaries claimed he used a character he called 'Socrates' as a mouth-piece for his own philosophical views. Notable among these critics was, allegedly, Phaedo, a fellow student of Socrates, whose writings are now lost, and...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...central academics, to reflect and relate to students’ lived experiences. Enhance unconscious bias training, and ensure it is grounded in lived realities and reflective practice. Empower tutors with better data and tools to support their students proactively. We’ve already seen impact: project findings were shared with module teams, the Awarding Gap Implementation...
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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...central to the debate – the morality of people who use the website and the hackers. But what about the morality of the marketers? We’ve stopped questioning the use of sex to sell things, but what about when marketing is used to sell illicit sex? Avid Life Media appears to have been making money both out of people’s desire to engage in dishonest behaviour – and out...
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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...nodded in response. The reality is that Sacks’s role in my career was neither surprising nor particularly special. He inspired a generation of neuroscientists to see brain science as a gateway to our common humanity and humanity as central to the scientific study of the brain. This article was originally published at Mind Hacks under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence [Oliver Sacks]...
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Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...central to the British parliamentary tradition, and also enjoys something of a cult status abroad, where the sight of grown men and women goading, braying, and heckling one another is greeted with a mixture of puzzlement and wonder. At its most volatile, PMQs is a bear pit. As the Guardian journalist Michael White pointed out in the 1990s, “little more enlightenment...
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How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...central. Unanswered questions For VW itself, apart from the massive loss of share value in recent days, its corporate social and environmental responsibility has taken a severe knock. Diesel cars represent a large proportion of new car sales in Europe and also of vehicles in use. Many of these will be Volkswagen Group vehicles bought by people who probably thought that...
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What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...Central Africa to the Far East and then another eight years to cross the Pacific, it now turned north like a virus in a hurry. By the end of 2015, Zika had reached Mexico and the Caribbean. It can only be a matter of time before the first case is reported north of the Rio Grande. Zika’s frenetic progress is now becoming mirrored by increasingly intensive research...
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