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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...worked tirelessly for decades to minimize the number of black voters, continuing an inglorious tradition of racism dating back to pre-civil war America. The sustained virulence with which the Republican establishment has attacked, blocked, demeaned and vilified the black man in the White House can only be explained in terms of festering racism. This is the crisis of...
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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...work carried out in an attempt to reduce the prevalence of pain. Some examples are two well-evidenced guidelines developed by the Royal College of Nursing (2009) and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (2012) developed to guide how pain management should be delivered to children in hospital in the UK. Despite these well-developed guidelines children’s pain...
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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...work” are very important. Tablets and smartphones are typically viewed much closer to the face than things like televisions or desktop computers. Although books are also read up close, studies have shown that children tend to hold them further away than they do screens. The other problematic aspect of screens is that they have been shown to disrupt sleep. The blue light...
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How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...work focused mainly on the relationship between Owen and fellow soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon, while Barker focused on Sassoon and Craiglockhart psychiatrist William Rivers. Both works are to be commended, but they are essentially fictional accounts. Part of the hospital’s plans to restore traumatised British officers to health was to put these men to work in the...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...working in the voluntary sector as the Agreement loomed in the mid-nineties, watching political developments with huge interest. When it dawned on a few of us that if the politicians were to secure a deal by Easter 1998, the Talks Chair Senator George Mitchell’s famous deadline before he left for his new-born baby in the USA, then there would be an instant and massive...
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Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...work led by UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific region. This work has included partnerships between academics, schools and UNESCO and these have generated valuable work toward preventing bullying on the basis of gender identity and expression. Transgender young people, and selected community-based organisations that they are a part of, have also been working hard to improve this...
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What is the pension triple lock, and how has it become an election issue?
Money & Business

What is the pension triple lock, and how has it become an election issue?

...working population. The different colours indicate the basis used to increase pensions each year. The chart shows how policy see-saws between protecting pensioner incomes and containing cost. [Chart showing the basic and new State Pension as a percentage of average earnings from 1975 - 2017.] Basic and new State Pension as a percentage of average earnings, 1975 to 2017....
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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...Working in partnership with nature to bring benefits to people is not new. For thousands of years, residents in tropical countries have planted greenery to provide shade and guard against oppressive heat. Rural farming communities in countries like Japan have for centuries understood that protecting the health of forests, rivers and uplands enables them to return healthy...
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