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What have big meals got to do with Christmas?
History & The Arts

What have big meals got to do with Christmas?

...become competitive or that it can result in disappointment for those who get new mittens instead of a new TV. It is more that some people think that Christmas feasting is a distraction from the “glad tidings” they associate with Jesus’ birth. Some of these people question the association of big meals and glittery decorations with questions of salvation. This is not...
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Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome

...including its active physical dimensions, can be a way of working through grief, venting the pain, even if it involves spectating rather than direct participation. Grief physically hurts, and although that awful pain may not always be visible to others, in some settings and cultures the human body becomes a vital tool for communicating, representing and sharing grief....
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Doctor Who and human history
History & The Arts

Doctor Who and human history

...become the prime motivators. Historical sources would still be consulted, but at the core of these episodes were stories of the period that had already been told. The Romans was a fairly close parody of the Hollywood epic Quo Vadis, to the point of lifting a couple of scenes; The Myth Makers (1965) took the viewers into the world of Homer’s Iliad. The other change in...
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Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife
Health, Sports & Psychology

Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife

...become at once a celebration of horror, a fascination with the supernatural, as well as a squaring up to the macabre. The sociocultural phenomenon of sharing scary stories is the skeletal framework that upholds this tradition, a time to dance around the cycle of life and death, confront and release inner fears. A time to reach for the philosopher’s stone and continue...
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What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration
History & The Arts

What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration

...become problematic for the rulers of the new nation states because they involved transnational loyalties. Someone who was too demonstrative in public about their religious affiliations could therefore be suspected of being dangerously loyal to foreign rulers. As a solution, religion was deliberately defined as a private matter – one which, for example, should have...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...becoming increasingly rare in the UK. Photo: Willow Neal. The next steps I am currently conducting research on butterfly conservation at The Open University but there are things you can do in your own garden to provide food and shelter for butterflies at all stages of their life cycles. There are also charities doing great work that we scientists find absolutely...
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Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and the menopause: a personal journey

...become more available in recent years has led me to reinterpret early experiences that were my wondrous neurodivergent self in action. I realised that I fit a lot of the patterns. I had previously thought of these as personal failings but the great writing and resources that are now out there have been really liberating for me, in terms of how I view myself and the parts...
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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...become ubiquitous and interacting with computers no longer means using keyboard and mouse. Embedded in the fabric of our cities, workplaces, homes, vehicles, clothes and even bodies, ‘smart’ systems now allow us to relate to the world around us, one another and even ourselves in unprecedented ways. Being directly or indirectly involved in every aspect of human life,...
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