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Current conversations about ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Current conversations about ageing

...thinking out loud, together, about work that often stays in academic papers. Whose version of ageing well? What does it mean to age well? In this podcast the researchers discuss what we can do to help ourselves to age well and what may make this more challenging for us. Transcript. What does home mean when you can no longer live there? What is ‘Home’? In this podcast...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...system for providing care during the daytime, but provision of medical and nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-04-23/debates/1AC407C3-56B3-43EE-8CCD-5B179C3AD465/LooeFloodProtectionProject Accessed 20th December 2019 Humphreys, D. (2019) Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate, in ‘Environmental Policy in ......
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...systems of interdependence. It also reveals the ongoing challenges of uneven development. While offering a useful way of exploring the issues facing the West of Ireland, the concepts of uniqueness and interdependence of place can also be applied beyond rural Ireland, with potential for explaining aspects of the geography of multiple locations around the world. Explore the...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...a gift of the gods thus increasing the importance of its presence in ritual events. In modern times scientists will travel the globe in order to recover meteorites as their scientific analysis provides essential information about the formation history of the solar system but clearly in some instances meteorites are also immensely valued as symbolic and sacred objects....
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Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
Digital & Computing

Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?

...system, which makes it more difficult for the clients to relocate their DNS servers. One must also bear in mind that the top-level domain .CN is under the management of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) which is responsible for issuing security certificates to Internet service providers. Last year, Google and Mozilla found out that CNNIC had issued...
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A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...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 (such...
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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

...system overwhelmingly designed to treat illness – rather than preventing it in the first place – is inevitably going to struggle. There are, however, other models of care. Models underpinned not by a search for cures, but by a desire to care. [A woman having a wellness massage] Anyone who has ever looked after a small child will be familiar with the natural human...
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