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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...simple in theory: starting times should be adjusted to reflect the fact that teenagers need later starts as they get older. But in practice, there are three major challenges: proving that early starts directly damage teenagers’ health, identifying the best starting time, and overcoming education officials’ reluctance to change traditional early starts. The US Centre...
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Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness

...simple exercise. For this exercise you need to sit silently and pay attention to the sensations of your breathing, bringing your attention back to just focusing on the sensation of your breathing whenever the mind wanders (it sounds rather easy, but you’ll find it does take a bit of effort). See this NHS site for more details. 2: Mindfulness can help you manage...
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Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman
Education & Development

Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman

...simple case of mistaken identity, no harm done, and I laughed it off, so they didn’t feel uncomfortable. I couldn’t help but wonder whether they had mixed me up with someone else because we’re both Brown women working at the same institution. Is this an example of a microaggression – a commonplace verbal, behavioural or environmental slight, which in this instance...
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What makes a great Christmas number one?
History & The Arts

What makes a great Christmas number one?

...simple four pitch refrain and ‘call and response’ device which involves the listener. Some take a melancholy slant on this theme, such as glam rock band Mud’s 1974 hit ‘Lonely this Christmas’, Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ (1984) and The Pogues ‘Fairytale of New York’ (1987), number one in Ireland. Even ‘Killing in the Name’ will forever be linked with...
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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...simple lifestyle choices that can help prevent the onset of dementia. Regular exercise - just 30 minutes of walking, swimming or everyday workouts such as housework are beneficial. Healthy diet - follow a mediterranean diet, avoid saturated fats and eat superfoods such as ginger and blueberries Mental stimulation - do some brain boosting activities; learn a new language,...
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Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...simple mathematics can be as important as solving complicated equations as Butch, Matthew and Dick explain. Transcript. What is it like to work as part of a team? Of course a project like ThrustWSH needs a large team of people with different skills, but what does it mean to work as part of a team? Listen to Len and Dick explain what working on the ThrustWSH is like, and...
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...simple answer - power, control and money. Eric King puts to him that the military industrial complex is perhaps not so well established in the UK as the US, so it seems reasonable to ask why GCHQ would be so insistent about the importance of their continuance of bulk communications data collection and retention for target development. Without bulk collection, the argument...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...simple stylized model to explore how family-firm-specific reputation costs, which seem to push first-generation CEOs to do better, might act as a constraint on management innovation for second-generation CEOs. Dynastic family-owned firms have worse management practices, but only if run by family CEOs Despite the global prevalence of family firms, research on this topic is...
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