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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...human characters and see them progressing through the book. This enormously stimulates our brain. Get in the habit of learning new things: games, recipes, driving routes, a musical instrument, a foreign language. Take a course in an unfamiliar subject that interests you. The more interested and engaged your brain, the more likely you’ll be to continue learning, and the...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...human homogeneity and simplicity. Similar uses of music pepper Woolf’s fiction: in her first novel, The Voyage Out, her heroine plays a Beethoven piano sonata usually perceived as ‘unattainable’ for women, augmenting the references to her growing feminism. In Night and Day, references to Mozart’s operas criticise the power of patriarchal society and in Jacob’s...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...Human Ecology and Social Change (3rd edn). Thames and Hudson Ltd. Schön, D. A. (1983) The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Basic Books. Star, S. L. & Griesemer, J. R. (1989) Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science,...
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Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Society, Politics & Law

Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

...human rights, refugee rights, and the rights of the child. Home Office policy and legislation advocate rights-based approaches and it has even published a plethora of guidelines on how to adhere to them. And yet there seems little evidence of this Utopia of rights in practice. People seeking asylum are subjected to arbitrary detention, with no time limit in the UK. Abject...
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Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...human form with deficiencies in education that explain low productivity. The NI economy being locked in a kind of underdevelopment trap that is an important element in explaining the persistence of weak economic performance linked to productivity. Figure 2 shows the continuing productivity challenge since the GFA in relation to the rest of UK. [Productivity, output per...
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Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...humans is about 3-5mm across, while the semi-circular canals range from 12mm up to 22mm in length. The bony labyrinth that houses the otolithic organs and the semi-circular canals is lined by an outer membrane that encloses an inner membranous labyrinth. This arrangement means that the vestibular system contains two almost concentric compartments both filled with fluid....
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Who was Mary Magdalene?
History & The Arts

Who was Mary Magdalene?

...human traits, including sexuality. This is, however, not how Jesus' story has been interpreted. Instead he is portrayed as both asexual and a spiritual teacher: in stories when women touch and kiss him, the gospel writers turn our attention to spiritual things, his sacrificial death, and forgiveness of our sins. Mary, however, will continue to haunt the story.[The...
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Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...human voice (speech, song, male, female); (b) descriptions that refer to musical elements: major, minor, scale, note, pitch; (c) descriptions that use metaphors: high/low, humming. Activity 4 (Exploratory) Look at the descriptions you produced for the audio tracks in Activity 1. Do they seem to belong to these categories of description? Discussion Naturally I do not know...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs