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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...works of Sigmund Freud...[Image of Sigmund Freud] Theories don’t emerge from a vacuum. To understand Freud’s ideas it is useful to get some sense of his life. He was born in 1856 and spent most of his life in Vienna; only moving to London in the last year of his life to escape the hostility of the Nazis. While there is every evidence (for example from his letters)...
Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...work so efficiently. For more information on how to keep our brain working well please click here. Physical activity does not always mean running, swimming or going to the gym or attend classes. These are, of course, healthy activities but may not be suitable for all of us or not at the beginning of a lifestyle change journey. Being physically active also means not...
Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...working kidney means even more slowed down elimination of the drugs from our body and that puts us more at risk of possible severe drug side effects and possible toxicity (from drug-to-drug interaction) that may further affect the function of our other organs including our brain. Dehydration makes our basic metabolic rate even slower in addition to all age-related...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...work, all cookies need to be enabled on some browsers. When this calculator was developed the average carbon footprint of a person living in the UK was calculated at 14.6 tonnes CO2e/year. Since then, emissions from the UK electricity system, some other sectors and embedded in imports have fallen as the UK and other countries attempt to move towards net zero. According to...
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...work as a nursery manager. Then we’d do it again in the evening.” Caroline Peaty, Mother of Adam Peaty Without such dedication and support from his parents Peaty’s Olympic journey would likely not have been possible. Throughout the athletic journey, as well as logistical support such as transport and organisation, the emotional support from an athlete’s family is...
A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...work in HR, it’s the way things are done in the workplace environment. If you’re familiar with 80s music, perhaps you’ve now got ‘Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon’ stuck in your head (sorry!). However, as a doctoral researcher exploring cultural differences and education – the kind of culture that I am referring to, well, that has proven harder to pin...
It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...work as my wife was expecting our second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. I eventually decided to begin the application process but first I needed to dust off my 12+ years old CV and update it. What better than to ask my old friend Jas (short for Jaswant) who had just secured a great job recently I thought? However, the conversation took a turn I wasn’t expecting:...
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...such as War and Peace indicate Tolstoy struggled with the meaning of life. This piece explores his pondering of life and death. ...[Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana", 1908, the first color photo portrait in Russia.] Various characters in Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace have sudden epiphanies relating to the banality of their existence. Early on, Prince Andre tries to