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What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...thinking) can be challenging. So, let’s have a look what happens when our brains are ageing and how we can prevent brain decline (memory and thinking) as we grow older in a few simple steps. It is an urban myth that every older person will develop dementia and in reality, it is a spectrum from normal age-related decline through to a clinically diagnosable dementia.The...
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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...thinks they can safely multitask while also avoiding prosecution, what’s stopping them? We need to change attitudes The tightening of the law may help to encourage some drivers to think about their phone use, but it seems unlikely it will solve the problem of mobile phone use among drivers, and eliminate the harm it causes. In a broader sense, changes to the law will...
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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...Think of perfect markets, where supply always matches demand, everything is perfectly priced and all resources (including people) are used optimally, with a perfect foresight of what the future consequences of any decision will be. This makes the modelling easier, but it’s not how the real world works. We don’t have perfect foresight, or complete understanding. We...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...thinking, attributional styles, etc.) to see whether conspiracism is underpinned by some intrinsic perceptual or reasoning deficit which leads people to misunderstand or misinterpret causal relations in the world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar...
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Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...think I'm a mule? ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘I'm from Glasgow.’ ‘Glasgow?’ ‘Uh huh. Glasgow.’ The white face hesitates the eyebrows raise the mouth opens then snaps shut incredulous yet too polite to say outright liar she tries another manoeuvre ‘And you parents?’ ‘Glasgow and Fife.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘Yes. Oh?’ Snookered she wonders where she should...
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Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...thinking. There was, of course, no “Gate of Ijtihad” to be closed, and nobody had the authority to close the gate even if one had existed. The metaphor, however, highlighted the contrast between the cultivation of diversity in the first three centuries of Sharia and the stalemate and rigidity of the study of Islamic law since then. The “silver lining” of ISIS is...
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The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...think there is a need and interest with scope for expansion if promoted correctly.” The OU and Parks Trust research team contunied and finished the research after the measures linking to Covid-19 pandemic were lifted.. We are currently in the process of publishing our findings. During the Covid-19 pandemic time we have co-designed and coproduces several resources that...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...think about. When looking at it in detail under a microscope, it is fascinating to see how well organised it is to allow the co-ordinated contractions to happen. The contractile cells are specialised muscle cells called cardiac myocytes. The image of heart tissue from a mouse shows the structure of a cardiac myocyte, taken at extremely high resolution, using an electron...
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