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Self-managed abortion in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Self-managed abortion in the UK

...course of medical abortion. A key advantage of self-managed abortion is that it enables the person ending a pregnancy to do so in the privacy of their home. The women1 we spoke with in our study generally welcomed this option and talked positively about doing so. The study highlighted that feeling cared for during telephone consultations was important to a good overall...
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...course and life events. However, when it comes to dying, wellbeing is usually not the first (or in top ten even) of words that people think about. People may be more familiar with thinking about ‘quality of life’, which if often linked to patient outcomes. In this article, we’ll outline what taking a wellbeing approach to dying matters and what it could look...
Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...course, building belonging and mattering is not without challenges. Participation needs to grow, and informal spaces like WhatsApp require careful moderation. But the lessons are clear: face-to-face events increase impact, collaboration across faculties strengthens networks, and student leadership deepens authenticity. The long-term vision is ambitious yet essential: to...
20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed
Languages

20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed

...courses and qualifications. Much of the history of language and communication is also the history of technology. Over the centuries, the invention of new technologies has massively changed how we communicate with each other and how we use language. The first major invention in this history was writing in around 3400 BCE. This allowed people to communicate across distances...
Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...course in reality these actions are being taken by human beings acting on behalf of the company. Why does it matter who is a ‘person’? As well as being able to enter into legal arrangements such as contracts, legal personality gives an entity the right to go to court in their own name. In previous centuries, the law upheld inequality by denying legal personhood to...
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should steer a course...
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...course, that there are many parts of the world where there aren’t suitable rocks to capture the carbon once you’ve burned it, that’s the other trouble, isn’t it? TL: Exactly. So it’s conceivable that we could do this a giant recycling operation for our excess carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and I suspect that we may at least explore the capability to do that...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...course, they’ve always been pretty fraught in most of the world. The problem always has been the power of the fossil fuel industry; it’s the biggest, richest industry on Earth and it’s headquartered in the United States – that’s where the biggest companies are located. They’ve been able to prevent serious action on climate change for a quarter century, but...