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Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Currently in the UK, 13 families a day suffer the heartbreak of losing their baby before, during or shortly after birth. That’s around 4,500 babies a year. And an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage (Sands, 2023). Yet, while this number reveals the scale of the problem, much less is known...
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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...open to debate. Less open to debate is the strange, compelling character of the story of its origins. An ageing author, with just one novel to her credit, the surprise discovery of a manuscript that she thought had been lost, the mystery surrounding the condition of the author… all this is the stuff of fiction. A belief of Emily Dickinson comes particularly to mind:...
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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...open a can; the recently established “Which University?” suggests that higher education is a decision similar to buying a washing machine. But Holmes? Surely Sherlock Holmes represents the height of intellectualism, the rationalist expert? As readers and viewers, we rely on Holmes’ expertise to solve the mystery and restore order, but Doyle’s stories and their...
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Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...open market. The Adam Smith Institute has a similar proposal, coupled with a nautical border around British waters that is policed by air and naval patrols (the IEA calls this “protectionist policy” that would lower fishing efficiency). The insistence from the Institute for Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute on private property rights misunderstands the...
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...open discussions about demographic change There are many reasons why the distribution of people in the UK is always changing. One is migration. This has implications. In areas where there are more working-aged people, there may be more people available to work but also more demand for jobs. In areas where there are more elderly people, there may be a need for more social...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...open economy like the UK, higher inflation can push down the exchange rate, making foreign debts much harder to repay. But inflation hasn’t taken off, despite unprecedented amounts of money-printing by central banks since the financial crisis. So Modern Money Theory (MMT), which claims that governments (and their social-security and pension funds) can never run out of...
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Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...Open University. References [i] The 2018 information on child life sentence is derived from conversations with Children Rights International Network (CRIN) and an answer to a question asked by a TD in the Irish Dail. Thanks to James Mehigan for sharing this. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessary reflect those of The Open...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications Humankind has always been inquisitive, needing to understand why things behave in a certain way, and trying to link observation with prediction. For example, since prehistoric times we have observed the heavens and tried to make sense of the seasonal changes in the position of the sun, moon and stars. [Astronomers...
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