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Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

...Centre in Nottingham With strong financial support, access to elite resources, and a built-in fanbase, Nottingham Forest Netball is well positioned to be one of the most competitive new teams in the NSL. Let’s face it, with the men’s football club’s rising profile during the 2024–25 season, Nottingham Forest’s success can only benefit netball. The football...
Does the universe have a heartbeat? The science of cosmic connection
Science, Maths & Technology

Does the universe have a heartbeat? The science of cosmic connection

...centre of the heart, massive stars blast out intense Ultraviolet (UV) energy. This energy is so violent it tears atoms apart, stripping electrons away from their partners (protons). The Reunion (Recombination): The electrons don't stay separated forever. Eventually, they lose that excess energy and fall back into an orbit around a proton. The Glow: The moment they...
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...research centres on low-cost semiconducting materials, one promising candidate being fine-grained titanium dioxide - the white pigment used in paints, and therefore cheaply available. Combined with dyes to increase the sensitivity of TiO2 to sunlight, it has a practical PV efficiency of 7 to 12%, and degrades very slowly. Titanium dioxide occurs as a natural mineral...
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What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...children of Dutch men and Asian women were counted as Dutch. There are also systems where ‘intermediate’ or mixed racial categories are formally recognised as separate races. The third criterion I’ll turn to is self-awareness of ancestry. This is different from what someone’s actual ancestry is. For example, individuals might have one idea of what their ancestry...
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...research. It aims to create a sustainable and high-quality simulation-based education framework. The all Wales simulation-based education and training strategy supports simulation in several ways: Collaborative learning: the strategy promotes a collaborative and coordinated approach to simulation-based education and training (SBET), engaging various stakeholders,...
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...Centre for Mental Health, 2017; Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care , 2017). Northern Ireland perspective Mental health problems are the single largest cause of ill health and disability in Northern Ireland. One in five adults in Northern Ireland have experienced a mental health problem, a rate 25% higher than in England. In a poll...
Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
History & The Arts

Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen

...children’, insisting ‘you must not do it anymore’. There’s a contrast with Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, which includes a version of the same story. Dylan’s interest is on God as a psychopathic bully who compels Abraham to submit; Isaac is unnamed. What’s unusual about ‘Story of Isaac’ is that it shows Cohen lining up on the side of the young...
Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...children, that perennial source of hope and joy, without which we might well be content to let the world slide. And even greater at the present time is our duty to those brave soldiers and sailors of the kingdom and Empire who are fortunate enough to be home on leave. Let us send them back one and all cheered, refreshed and reinvigorated, while we have no doubt that the...