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Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines

...changes and uncertainties of life, including caring responsibilities or work demands which make time for ourselves limited. Self-care activities allow us to take time out of our usual routine to nurture ourselves, to comfort ourselves, and to provide space to reflect on our own thoughts, all of which will allow us to maintain a sense of equilibrium that will ensure we...
Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year

...change with enthusiasm. In 2026, the horse year is specifically a ‘Fire Horse year’ (火马年 huǒ mǎ nián); the added element of fire intensifies this sense of motion, suggesting a year of breakthroughs, innovation and high energy, though also one requiring balance and care amidst rapid shifts. Cultural connotations of the horse In traditional Chinese thought, the...
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...changed this business model in the sense that it's changed how we might charge and how we might separate the charging and the production of goods. Think about Wikipedia. Everyone uses Wikipedia. It's an online encyclopaedia that's free. Wikipedia competes with the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which originally started life as a multi-volume product which you bought a set of...
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...change. Russia is not protecting Assad because of any significant economic or military ties, but for two other specific reasons. For one, Russia presents the integrity of Syrian governance structures as a bulwark against radical Islamist alternatives. But on another level, Russia’s military intervention has made it an unavoidable geopolitical interlocutor for the rest...
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...changing and evolving. Although we are still a predominantly male industry, the inclusion of women in the railway is gradually changing the public’s perception of who might be eligible to join. On a more personal note, my eight years in the railway so far have served me well. While I have certainly experienced struggles, most of them have been struggles faced by...
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...changed no portion of the story, nor introduced any new ideas or circumstances. I have mended the language where it was so bald as to interfere with the interest of the narrative; and these changes occur almost exclusively in the beginning of the first volume. Throughout they are entirely confined to such parts as are mere adjuncts to the story, leaving the core and...
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...change in Ireland and American economic expansion. By the end of the century, the US census indicated that almost five million Americans were either Irish-born or had at least one Irish parent (US Census, 1900). This exceeded the population of Ireland at the time (Kenny, 2000, p. 131) How were the Catholic Irish received in America? The Catholic Irish who arrived in...
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...change the behaviours which lead to online harms; ii) change the design of tech/software which enables online harms and iii) provide effective law and policy responses which help the victims. The Cyber Armour podcast was developed to increase awareness and understanding of online harms affecting women and girls. The pre-recorded episodes explore a wide range of concerns...