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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...think, you could try setting up an auto-reply explaining when you will be checking your emails. This is becoming an increasingly common practice that people are using to manage their wellbeing. 4: Audit and curate your social media feed [social media icons] Next time you are on social media, look at the different posts on your feed and be honest with yourself about how...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...think of management as a monitoring technology that allows CEOs to observe their workers’ productivity, it is only profitable to invest in the technology if the CEOs then use the information to discipline the low productivity workers. Thus, the “reputation cost” incurred by family CEOs may act as a constraint on investing in this technology. We find empirical...
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Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...think that ‘voice’ is used literally here, too. But since people (plural) can’t actually speak with one voice (singular), I think we’re in the realms of comparison: several or many people are speaking as if they just have one voice between them – that is, unanimously. In sentence (d) we have a clear connection with sound – but this particular sound isn’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...systems (which can be difficult to assess) and the number of individuals of a particular species or broader group that exist in total. Mammals have also been around for a long time; LoM [p. 14] mentions the shrew-like 200-million-year-old fossil named Megazostrodon. Rather than shuffling along, with splayed-out limbs in the manner of many reptiles, this animal had limbs...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...think the law needed changing. “From the cases I have seen and from the assurances I have received, I am satisfied that we are applying the doctrine correctly and that these cases are being properly brought before the courts,” Saunders told MPs. “The guidelines help prosecutors in their decision-making and should improve consistency as well…” Furthermore, Mike...
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...think it would be amazing, especially as we are going to become a majority minority country,” she says, referring to US Census Bureau projections that non-whites will outnumber whites in the next 30 years. Concurso Nacional de Deletreo en Español had 11 contestants in its first year. In the past it was hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the spelling bee this year,...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...think they had been asked very profoundly in England before, and I don't think all universities in England ask them now. But one of the advantages of being a new university, as the Open University itself realises of course, is that you are forced into asking questions, the answers to which people usually take for granted in existing institutions. INTERVIEWER: But the...
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The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...systemic barriers that still hinder equity. Through this lens, it calls for deeper investment, reform, and a dismantling of colonial legacies in men’s football. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar seemingly one powerful narrative was emerging, Africa’s assertion of Black African coaching excellence which could hopefully lead to global conversations about representation,...
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