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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...children of such bloodthirsty themes as indication of their resonance with children’s unconscious feelings. The third core of Freud’s ideas focuses on the idea of inner psychic conflict or psychodynamics. Freud saw this as taking threefold form. There is the ‘it’ (usually called the id though Freud himself never used that term) which is our core biological...
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some are involved functionally and laterally like the partners in a business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which...
Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...children to sit and play computer games rather than be out in the streets, or in the garden, climbing, jumping, running and socialising and playing with friends (Slutsky & DeShetler, 2017). [Kid on mobile phone] Sport and technology are now so intertwined that with the continuous development of affordable products we will have the means to collect an array of data, some...
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...research and gut instinct I think there’s a lot of intuition in commissioning, speaking on behalf of the commissioners I know; part of the skill that we have to show as programme makers is to tap into their instinct for what makes good television or good radio or what have you. On audiences, obviously there’s pure numbers of eyeballs, if you like, and that’s very...
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...research) whether this has changed in the last 50 or 60 years? This means that questions like the following are asked: Do men and women share tasks more equally? If this has happened, why? To what extent do our conclusions need to take into account the differences between families? So, these changes are the starting point of this particular social science cycle of...
How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
Science, Maths & Technology

How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO

...par with those that have rocked the banking sector. Perhaps we’ll see the same tightening of regulation that has significantly improved that industry. [The Conversation] Paul Nieuwenhuis, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...centred Barbara Stanwyck in Billy Wilder’s classic Double Indemnity (1944) also has her sexual prowess associated with deep-seated psychological problems. All too often, women’s uncontrollable sexuality has been pathologised. [Cate Blanchett] Cate Blanchett Wondemaghen mentions a number of films that do this: Play Misty For Me (1971), Fatal Attraction (1987), and...
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...centres on the lives of two friends from LA’s African-American and Latino transgender community, Sin Dee Reel (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor). The reception has so far been overwhelmingly positive. [A still from the movie Tangerine] A still from Tangerine Tangerine follows in the wake of an upsurge in transgender programming in recent years, the...