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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...worked on more than one level. Their affinity with the world around them was often evoked in their paintings, for example in the works of Constable. There are strong echoes of Romanticism in contemporary concerns about the environment and the need to appreciate and preserve it. Romantics also embraced the foreign and the exotic, especially eliciting an interest in...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover during the environmental testing phase at Airbus Toulouse.] The ExoMars - Rosalind...
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From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...work due to long-term sickness (Powell, 2024). The UK, therefore, is increasingly sick, and demand for health care and treatment far outstrips the availability of services. But we cannot rely on the NHS to solve this. Important as the NHS is in treating and curing disease when it arises, it is not built to address the underlying factors contributing to the UK’s...
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...work at an optimal level. This will help our body and brain to cope better with changes that ageing brings. The famous motto that goes with ageing is: ‘Use it or lose it’. This is true about all physical functions as well as our brain functions. We do need to regularly exercise/train the functions we do not want to lose. Not being able to concentrate and/or feeling...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...work by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (c. 427–347 bce) this tradition is called into question. Plato’s discussion raises some broader issues about the nature of courage and how it relates to moral knowledge or understanding. Like most of Plato’s works, Laches is written as a dialogue between a small number of characters. Plato’s dialogues are set in the...
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DIY: Generate your own electricity
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Generate your own electricity

...works on the same basic principles as the power station generators that supply domestic electricity. How a generator works When an electric current flows through a wire, it generates a three-dimensional magnetic force field around the wire, similar to that surrounding a bar magnet. Magnets are also surrounded by a similar three-dimensional field. This can be ‘seen’ in...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...works so well? If we begin by looking back at Raducanu’s childhood, her parents provided the opportunity for her to try lots of different sports in addition to tennis, including ballet, swimming, horse riding, golf, skiing, and even motocross. Sampling a range of sports throughout childhood is argued to provide the best grounding both for progressing to a higher level...
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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Working with their communities, schools might draw on these varied experiences to encourage students to consider the shared nature of human suffering and motivations for war across time and place. This has relevance to learning in many areas of the curriculum, including History, PHSE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) and Religious Studies. It can help...
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