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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...history, charms, rites and rituals have been used to attempt to retake control of life, particularly in times of distress and uncertainty. During the COVID-19 pandemic new superstitions appeared across the world, like drinking cow wee in India, or warding off evil by displaying disembowelled monkeys in Cambodia. In the UK, conspiracy theories circulated about mobile phone...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...history of slang, feels there’s been a notable upswell in the ‘vocabulary of vilification’ in the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s victory. And the reason for this, he suggests, in an interview with the journalist Jessica Goldstein, is likely down to the increasing polarisation of political opinions that’s taken place in society of late. Coining of a whole new...
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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...history. Watching the footage of his second, record-breaking jump, you can see that on the runway he is relishing the moment having just broken the world record again minutes previously. He knows he might do it again and is supremely confident and relaxed. Later, he admitted that if he could combine the physicality of Gothenberg with the technical perfection of Lille he...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...history month and Valentine’s Day. This year, however, I thought I could rest up a bit on February 14, given that I said everything I wanted to say about the celebration of romantic love last Valentine. I was wrong. Facebook chose February 14 2014 to do one of the most exciting things that has happened in the area of gender and social media for a long time. It changed...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...history, suggesting that there is a strong social or cultural element, but our experience of ourselves as female or male is far deeper than some kind of social brainwashing. This raises a new question: how does the social or cultural become so deeply engrained that gender identities and gender differences seem fundamental to who we are? As Rosalind Gill has written, "how...
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...history. Foreword - John D'Arcy [Photo of John D’Arcy, Director of The Open University in Ireland]John D’Arcy - Director of The Open University in Ireland Two decades have passed since the momentous events described in this book and its accompanying OpenLearn website. Our collective memories of those times will have been made with press and media reports back then....
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...history - words and actions that point towards a better peace than the one we have had so far. But there is another question: Are the loyalist paramilitaries watching and listening? Because in the here and now of Northern Ireland, it is their guns that are loudest. [Handwritten statement by Mervyn Wynne Jones. See details below for full transcript.]Mervyn Wynne Jones...
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Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...History of Irish Popular Music. Related articles by Lauren O'Hagan: Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Early access).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416231162077 'Rory played the greens, not the blues': expressions of Irishness on the Rory Gallagher YouTube channel, Irish...
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