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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...becoming harder to maintain for some particularly offensive words. Even when they appear in analytical or descriptive contexts, certain words can still provoke strong adverse reactions. So the N-word today is rarely spoken even when people are quoting or analysing it rather than deploying it as an insult. The current feeling in public conversation is that some terms are...
Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...become more widely available since 2008. As such they fell outside the scope of the Misuse of Drugs Act and could be bought and sold lawfully, having been imported from manufacturers, often based in China. The effect of these synthetic drugs can be much more powerful and long lasting than organic cannabis and this, combined with the low cost and free easy availability has...
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...students new to the alphabet, are presented in more detail in the next section. Αθηναι (Athēnai) = Athens Δηλος (Dēlos) = the island of Delos Θηβαι (Thēbai) = Thebes Κορινθος (Korinthos) = Corinth Σικελια (Sikelia) = Sicily Χιος (Chios) = the island of Chios Now try to match the names of these peoples with their English equivalents....
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Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled understanding of the invisible web that every ambitious, skillful and ruthless politician must weave around his audience. Since there was no party system and no elected politicians either, every day in Athens was like being on the campaign trail. As a result, Athens provides a striking...
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...students and staff from the Geography Department of Maynooth College (now Maynooth University) and their research provided an invaluable base especially for the Open University programmes in 1983 (Regan and Breathnach, 1981). Using a rural area in the West of Ireland also links the programmes directly to the next series in this collection, on Northeast Mayo. Southwest...
Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...students over time: a meta-analysis’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, pp. 180–98. Nettle, D. (2005) ‘What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama’. In J. Gottschall and D. Sloan Wilson (eds), The Literary Animal (pp. 56–75). Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press. Schonfeld, Z. (2013) Now We Have Proof...
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...students. Many city councils in Scotland are examining their equality policies with an aim of improving equality, diversity, inclusion and a recognition of this history. For example, The City of Edinburgh Council has produced a new temporary plaque which contains a new narrative of the political and pro-slavery activities of Henry Dundas MP (1st Lord Melville), who...