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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...Becoming a Union Rep In the early 1980s the Bridgeton depot was shut with the opening of the Yoker Depot in the West of Glasgow. I continued my role as carriage cleaner, which I loved, but witnessed a campaign of bullying and harassment by a couple of management inspectors towards the cleaners. I watched grown men crumble, reduced to tears as they were threatened with...
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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...become visible to the rest of the country in a way that they never were before. Through the pandemic, we have all come to recognise and appreciate the enormous value of carers, both paid and unpaid, and the pressures they face, to the extent of applauding them and other key workers in our millions every week. Before the pandemic hit, the number of those providing unpaid...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...become respectable. It is not always openly admitted, but it seems to me an absolutely clear implication of Systems Theory, that at every level of organisation new laws appear which were not apparent, and could not even in theory have been deduced by the behaviour of the constituents of the system, before they were organized. This idea of new levels, new laws breaking in...
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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...becomes a Greek problem and not a Eurozone problem. Why a ‘Euro crisis?’ When the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) struck in 2008, the Eurozone initially seemed to suffer no worse than the UK or US. This was partly because the ECB appeared able to respond to the crisis with the same emergency measures as other central banks: pushing interest rates down towards zero, and...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...becoming interested in the associations between such psychological factors and heart disease, particularly in women. The faster a heart attack is treated after it occurs, the less heart muscle is lost and the lower the risk of death and disability as a result. For both men and women the most common symptom of a heart attack is chest pain. But women can experience less...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...become emergent and shape the future direction of politics, not only in Scotland but across the UK. Writing this in Scotland there is no doubt that it feels a very different place. While it is at times hard to express this in words, the wider context that informs political debate and discussion has certainly changed and the wider constitutional debate has been a key...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...become your own, and it cannot be taken away by someone else. This view of knowledge crops up in a number of dialogues, so it is likely that Plato endorsed it himself. But it has an important – and controversial – implication. It implies that we cannot come to know something just by taking someone else’s word for it, even if that person is an acknowledged expert....
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...become both thinner and finer-grained away from the source. However, there is a very important external factor that has a considerable influence on the shape of this pattern. Can you think what this is? The dispersal of the umbrella cloud is controlled by the wind. When there is a wind, the umbrella region is blown off to one side so tephra is deposited asymmetrically....
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