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Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...out at her superiors and threatening to release classified material about the agency to the press, she is involuntarily detained at a psychiatric hospital. She is heavily medicated to the point of speech impairment. This is explained by the writers as having been a deliberate act devised by Mathison and mentor Saul to lure out their enemies. But this particular narrative...
Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...out of your system' and 'peer pressure' as reasons to permit purchases of which they claimed to disapprove in principle. Ideas about 'good parenting' and 'healthy child development', moreover, suggested that parents needed gradually to cede responsibilities to children as they grew up; and for the most part, parents did this in relation to clothes and personal care. That...
Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...out what he has to say about it. To take your exploration of mapping further, look up some sources to explain what's happened to the coastline at Thermypolae in the last 2,500 years. What could the coastline have looked like when the battle took place? Compare the map from The British Library (above) with the photograph of the site today (below) and other resources you...
Mortgage vs rent
Money & Business

Mortgage vs rent

...out in the resale or you have to spend it to bring the house up to scratch. So people don’t take into account all the true costs, but nevertheless people do make gains, there’s no dispute about that, but people also make gains renting. Rental is risk-free. There’s no benefit of capital gain, but equally there’s no risk of capital loss so you know exactly where you...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of people urgently waiting for transplants. It’s still important to confirm that family members, next of kin and/or appointed trusted individuals will continue to be consulted and asked to confirm last known wishes. Those people closest to the individual...
Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...out I’m afraid may seem soppy but we hold hands. It’s probably to stop me falling over now but. Ann Are you romantic dear? Owen Well I would say not I expect. Ann No, I would say not. Owen But on the other hand depends what you mean by romanticist, romanticism I think, because I associate it with places a bit together with you and with excitement. Now I mean to me...
Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...out of water. Here's how it averted the crisis. Available at: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/cape-town-was-90-days-away-from-running-out-of-water-heres-how-it-averted-the-crisis/ (Accessed: 23 August 2021) IPCC (2021) Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the...
The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...out...Over the last two decades we have come to recognise that the icy, airless, frozen moons of the distant gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn are among the most likely places in our Solar System to host extra-terrestrial life. Robotic spacecraft, such as NASA’s Galileo and Cassini missions, have shown that several icy moons contain vast oceans of liquid water deep...