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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...research fellow at SOAS, pointed out, modern yoga practice has much in common with exercise methods such as Swedish and Danish gymnastic drills that were popular for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yoga also offered relief from what one yoga teacher described in 1976 as “housewife syndrome” which included “monotony and lack of...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
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Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...research and understanding. You may like to take a look at the Timeline, to put some of the narratives in the context of other historical events of the period. Interpreting the oracle's utterances Herodotus suggests one of the main differences between Greeks and barbarians is the ability of clever Greeks to interpret oracles correctly. In the ‘Lydios logos’, Herodotus...
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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...research as possible to determine if they are trustworthy and that they can process your payments. Currently, Bitcoin exchanges are not regulated in the same manner as banks and foreign currency exchanges so you have very little protection if anything were to go wrong. Exchange rates It’s probably too early to tell if Bitcoin is around for the long term. As far as we...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African traditional religions, and consequently...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...research and development in renewable energy. But even if the UAE was to achieve net zero by some measure domestically, continuing to export oil internationally means it will be burned somewhere, and so the climate crisis will continue to grow. Self-interest Is disappointment a foregone conclusion in Dubai? Already one of the hottest places in the world, parts of the...
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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...research and this course is going to ask that question, is to what extent is this delivering benefits for Africa? Video 1 [Described image] Figure 1 The Chinese economy is often depicted in comic ways as a challenge to US global hegemony The data is impressive as the graphs (Figures 2a–d) in this PDF show. The data reveals that China’s economy has been growing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...research done in both Ireland and France which showed violence against sex workers had actually increased since the introduction of the Nordic Model, and that it had a negative impact both on the control they had over their job and their lives in general. Matilda has experience with the Nordic Model as it is the same system in place in her city of Portland, Oregon. She...
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