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Handel: A Classical Icon
History & The Arts

Handel: A Classical Icon

...his own style of biblical concert drama. Handel's Samson Oratorio Extract Donald Burrows introduces an authentic recording, performed by Harry Christopher and The Sixteen. Professor Donald Burrows' Research This is a special time for Handel scholars. Donald Burrows talks about the conferences and performances taking place this year, and describes his latest projects....
Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...researchers stressed the importance of looking beyond the individual - to their relationships and to the wider social systems they live in. The ‘systemic view’ is interested in how these factors impact on individual well-being and distress. This film tells the story of the development of systemic ideas and provide an understanding of how the client context is of value...
Darwin in the land of pumas
History & The Arts

Darwin in the land of pumas

...children sucking it like sugar. This habit is very different from that of the Spanish Gauchos, who, leading the same kind of life, eat scarcely any; according to Mungo Park, it is people who live on vegetable food who have an unconquerable desire for salt. The Indians gave us good-humoured nods as they passed at full gallop, driving before them a troop of horses, and...
Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...children and produced a document with a list of necessary behaviours to be adhered to on her part. This list outlined that she should fulfil household duties such as the laundry, cooking my meals and tidying my study as required. She should also understand that, due to my busy academic schedule, she would not receive my company in public, she would not expect intimacy and...
Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...children and elderly people benefits all generations”. Finally, there are emerging concerns over who will care for caregivers. It is not just older populations who are too often forgotten and uncared for. It is also those who are responsible for them. Balancing work, life and caring can be a nearly impossible task. There are also emotional burdens that require support...
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...children who have acquired massive amounts of cultural information that wasn't available to us when we were their age. On the missing link between genes and cultural information: We know obviously that genes build bodies, and we know that they build brains and the kind of brains we have are very, very interesting and unusual for a primate. And one of the main things that...
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...research by Bournemouth University, change how the wider public thought about para sports: The participants were interviewed in four phases before and after the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and Dan said that, before the event, there did not seem to be much change in the way people were talking about disability and disabled sports. "There were a lot of barriers - people...
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...research work - a flavour of which is provided in what follows - has revealed just how subtle and intricate their biology is. Also, as with other areas of biology, our scientific understanding of primate biology is incomplete, so searching questions that may come to mind as you read often can't be easily answered - at least not without a good deal more study. You may need...