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I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and final year of high school. Pressures and prospects on the horizon. At that time there’s...
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Marco Rubio wins by coming in third
Society, Politics & Law

Marco Rubio wins by coming in third

...universally predicted. But don’t be fooled. Sanders 2016 is not Obama 2008 – and another dramatic upset of Hillary’s procession to the presidency is not yet in sight. Sanders will appeal to Democratic “progressives” and mobilise a lot of young voters, but he needs a surprise upset in a big state to make a lasting impression. That’s a far taller order than a...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...University, and his colleagues recently published a study of Arctic shrews in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2016 Arctic Report Card. Hope and his colleagues chose shrews for a number of reasons. They live in the Arctic year-round, rather than migrating seasonally like many other species. Additionally, shrews consume considerable quantities of...
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Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...University...[West Street, Bristol] Two closed shops on West Street, Bristol, April 2017 Many are asking why Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, has called a general election despite repeatedly saying that she would not do so. From the moment she first stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party in June 2016 she ruled out such a possibility. In her Easter...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study says, “invested an...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
Society, Politics & Law

Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...almost universally experience shock, grief and bereavement. Justice Lloyd’s comments on handing down Gibney’s sentence reflect two vital but overlooked truths: that home has meaning beyond bricks and mortar and that being homeless does not necessarily mean having no home at all. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications [Vesta ] Vesta, goddess of hearth (palace garden of Sanssouci, Potsdam) by Francois Gaspard Adam, 1758 Virginity, women’s lack of sexual experience before marriage in particular, has been highly valued in many different cultures. Some feminist critics have argued that the high value placed on the virginity of...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works from our cultural past, Frankenstein is available...
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