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Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome

...including its active physical dimensions, can be a way of working through grief, venting the pain, even if it involves spectating rather than direct participation. Grief physically hurts, and although that awful pain may not always be visible to others, in some settings and cultures the human body becomes a vital tool for communicating, representing and sharing grief....
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Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...working at the front line all the way to strategic roles. It may seem that an individual older person experiencing health inequalities is powerless to self-manage, but this is not always the case. While we should all be rightly concerned by the increasing use of food banks across all ages, most of the 5 Pillars for Health Ageing can still be achieved to a certain extent....
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Inside the mind of Trump's true believers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Inside the mind of Trump's true believers

...worked mainly as a longshoreman. He wrote “The True Believer” in reaction to the rise of fascism, Nazism and communism. Against all odds, the book became a best-seller. Hoffer shrewdly analyzed the forces that spark nationalist and totalitarian movements. The irony of Trump’s “true believers” remark probably escaped both the president and his audience. As a...
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Sara Kay Aloe
Education & Development

Sara Kay Aloe

...learning new things, and it turns out that personal development can also be a hobby.’ Working in IT recruitment, the pandemic had a big impact and Sara was unfortunate enough to lose her job, ‘…but OpenLearn helped me get through those awful lockdowns by keeping me busy,’ she told us. She moved onto courses in subjects as diverse as history, languages, finance, IT and psychology. It was during this time that Sara started ......
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Doctor Who and human history
History & The Arts

Doctor Who and human history

...The Crimson Horror’, 2013), the stories remain firmly in the pseudo-historical format. Doctor Who is very much aware that it is at heart a science fiction series, and so an alien threat is always the order of the day. That will no doubt continue as the show moves forward. Visit Tony's blog to read more of his work on Doctor Who, and other interesting history topics....
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...work meeting ] Research participants used to be referred to as ‘subjects’, especially in my home discipline, psychology. ‘Participant’, the term now generally used, emphasises the rights of the person recruited, and their centrality to the research process. It signals the researcher’s intention to take an appropriate ethical position. However another...
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Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity
Nature & Environment

Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity

...Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), refers to ‘indigenous peoples’ as “a global movement fighting for rights and justice for those particular groups who have been left on the margins of development and who are perceived negatively by dominating mainstream development paradigms, whose culture and ways of life are subject to discrimination and contempt and...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...work that we scientists find absolutely essential, using data collected by anyone – perhaps even you! If you are interested, check out the resources below. Further resources Butterfly Conservation - Volunteering The Parks Trust Milton Keynes - Volunteering UKBMS – UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme Study with The Open University S295 The Biology of Survival S397...
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