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What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do we know about the seven Earth-like planets?

...family are Earth-like in their density and not just their size. There is no way to be sure yet how much water most of them have, if any. Similarly, it’s hard to know whether any resemblance to Earth extends as far as having plate tectonics and a distinction between oceanic and continental crust (like Earth) or a more globally homogeneous crust (like Mars and Venus). The...
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Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...families, community and faith-based networks1. We may also find it useful to access some information about how we can take care of ourselves as our grief emerges, and how we can learn to express our feelings for the person no longer with us in body. The remaining 40% may need some additional help in their grief. This can involve peer support groups, individual...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...family lived and worked at a remote farm outside Trawsfynydd in north-west Wales, called Yr Ysgwrn. Evan Evans bought his son a book on the rules of strict-metre Welsh verse when Hedd Wyn was 11 years old. He read the book with passion and enthusiasm, and soon mastered the difficult and intricate rules of strict-metre verse, known as cynghanedd. He wrote his first ever...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...family farm in Sussex. [Tractor in a field by a lake] Contemporary haymaking working on a much larger scale. Meadow species are uniquely adapted to the annual cycle of summer hay cutting and aftermath grazing that has been shaping them for centuries. Since World War II, some 97% of our precious wildflower meadows have been lost, due to agricultural intensification, land...
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...family that had led military efforts towards independence. By the late 1660s, the Dutch Republic had become roiled by costly and disastrous wars with England and a growing public backlash against its liberal, republican rulers and their values. Into the fray came a remarkable book – and a remarkable author – which aimed to defuse the situation and protect the fragile...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...family or comrades of the deceased to pay for their safe passage. Without it, the soul could be trapped on the banks of the river forever on the other side, the soul passed by the three-headed guard dog Cerberus to enter the gates to the Underworld proper. Cerberus was friendly to the arriving souls – wagging his tail and encouraging them to pet him – but would attack...
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Perseus: what’s in a name?
History & The Arts

Perseus: what’s in a name?

...family in Florence. [Perseus and Andromeda by Frederic, Lord Leighton] Fig 2 By contrast, more recent versions of Medusa have attempted to give her a more human spin: in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ poem, for example (part of The World’s Wife collection (1999)), the myth is used as a metaphor for a jealous woman who’s been betrayed by her lover. The romantic...
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...families, communities and workplaces. Political grief, while painful, can become a bridge as well as a barrier. Yet here lies an opportunity. Political grief, while painful, can become a bridge as well as a barrier. When we recognise that people across the political spectrum are grieving – even if they grieve different losses – we can begin to see our common humanity....
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