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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...changed our benefit systems. These are just a few examples of mathematics in our lives that immediately spring to mind, and I could go on and on. But this is not why mathematics fills me with wonder and awe. All I have said so far is that mathematics is a useful science, perhaps almost as useful as engineering. And that really would be missing the special nature of...
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Article 10 mins
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...change to “really start to shape the bigger frameworks that support the things that happen in our society. It was a nice bridge between different organisations, the academic context, and the third sector context.” Sarah’s doctoral thesis was on children’s rights and her work for The Open University now involves producing resources around children’s rights, among...
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Article 5 mins
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...change Foch’s mind, but to no avail. At the end of the negotiations, there was no handshake. Erzberger portrayed Foch in his memoirs as cold and forbidding, barely human. [erzberger signing ceasefire agreement on train carriage] Negotiating the armistice. Behind the table, from the right: the French General Maxime Weygand and Marshal Ferdinand Foch (standing), the...
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Article 15 mins
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...changes radically according to the target age group. Toys on the ground floor are aimed at infants, and then at progressively older children on each higher floor, ending with toys designed for tweens or early teens. On the ground floor, stuffed toys predominate, with anthropomorphised animals posed so as to invite cuddles, often with human-like smiles and wide-eyed...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...change things (Holman Jones, 2005, p. 763). Storytelling becomes a form of resistance. Patricia Hill Collins speaks of the ‘outsider-within’ status of Black women in institutions, a position that grants unique insight into how systems function (and fail) for those they were not designed to serve (Collins, 1986). As Black mothers raising autistic children, Claire and I...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...changing attitudes. J.C. Daniels, in his book on leopards, describes an incident in Madhya Pradesh in the 1950s showcasing tolerance taken to an extreme. A tiger killed a young boy and the half-eaten corpse was found a day later. The boy’s father left instructions” “Leave the body; the boy is anyway dead, at least let the tiger eat a full meal.” Such 'tolerance'...
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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...change significantly between one census survey point and the next one a decade later, constraining adequate planning of responsive services. However, repeated surveys can offer useful retrospective trend analysis of prevalence rates to provide national and international evaluation of the effectiveness of education and prevention strategies over the decade. Data can also...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...change with the seasons, how the smells meet your nose, or how the temperature feels on your skin. Really appreciate being part of that particular moment. Five reasons to care about mindfulness From the video, you will have learned that mindfulness is about focusing on the present moment and accepting your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. It is something that we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs