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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...Available at: https://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/2017/10/24/uk-sport-statement-on-culture [Accessed 25th November 2020]. Sarkar, M. (2019) How to create psychological resilience [podcast]. The Athlete Development Project. Available at: https://athletedevelopmentproject.com/2020/01/ep-72-mustafa-sarkar-how-to-create-psychological-resilience/ [Accessed 11th August 2020]....
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Article 10 mins
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...projects in the pipeline will see output rise from 23 gigawatts (GW) today to 50GW by 2031. The Barakah nuclear power plant (the Arab world’s first) started generating electricity in 2020. While only meeting 1% of the country’s electricity demand, when fully operational in 2030, this may rise to 25%. The oil sector is inherently capital-intensive, not
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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...projections, there may not be a happy ending to this morality tale. Bearish instincts and their ability to plan and act propels them to enter the human domain. The language of media refers to an ‘invasion’ emphasising that to humans they are in many ways unwanted refugees, immigrants fleeing from disaster and heading into a hostile world that does not understand them...
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Article 15 mins
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...project where the young Davy had been taken on as laboratory assistant. It had opened the previous March in Hotwells, a run-down spa at the foot of the Avon Gorge outside Bristol. Originally developed to rival nearby Bath, Hotwells had dwindled to a downmarket cluster of cheap clinics and miracle-cure outfits offering hydrotherapy or mesmerism to those in the desperate...
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Article 5 mins
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...managed....Eutrophication: Introduction - Eutrophication describes the biological effects of an increase in the concentration of nutrients. The collective term ‘nutrients’ refers to those elements that are essential for primary production by plants or other photosynthetic organisms. Eutrophication is most often caused by increases in the availability of nitrogen and...
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Do as Dumbledore does: the benefits of private speech
Languages

Do as Dumbledore does: the benefits of private speech

...manages to hide. The short conversation that follows between Draco and Dumbledore caught my attention: Albus Dumbledore: Good evening, Draco. What brings you here on this fine, spring evening? Draco Malfoy: Who else is here? I heard you talking. Albus Dumbledore: I often talk aloud to myself. I find it extraordinarily useful. The fact that Dumbledore was lying in this...
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Article 10 mins
Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sharenting: What is it and are you doing it?

...manage the more significant share of childcare. They broadly take primary responsibility for family photos and updates offline and historically led the curation of paper family albums and sharing of photos. So there are similarities with how mothers engage with others through pictures and updates on and offline.​ ...photos are not just a representation of affection, but...
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The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons
Society, Politics & Law

The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons

...manage life in this meaningless and dehumanising penal abyss. Drugs, especially cannabis, can be a means of controlling unstructured time by inducing sleep, thus making time consciousness much less evident. Psychoactive drugs, such as Spice, alter perception, mood and can even induce unconsciousness. That psychoactive drugs, including Spice, cause serious damage to health...
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