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Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...work or university. For instance, most Open University courses and modules use online learning forums where learners can share experiences and ideas, raise questions and work on course tasks. 2. How do you feel about using an online learning forum? If you haven’t yet experienced using online learning forums, how comfortable do you think you would feel about posting to...
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his 1973 book Awakenings that he became recognised both as a remarkable writer and a remarkable neurologist, as the book recounted his experience with seemingly paralysed patients from the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic and their remarkable awakening and...
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...to account. For them, real opposition to austerity will be built across the country as a whole, using the same social movement model that won Corbyn the Labour leadership. If Corbyn stays the course, we have four and half years to find out if this approach works.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...work and survival around trade, transactions, drugs, pimps, friendship, betrayal, violence and care. Set on Christmas Eve, Sin Dee is happy to be out of jail after a 28-day sentence and has a secret she wants to share with Alexandra about her pimp/boyfriend Chester (James Ransone). Alexandra mistakenly guesses that she’s finished with him for sleeping around, which sets...
How we talk about Savile
Society, Politics & Law

How we talk about Savile

...work on more recent press reporting of Savile suggests there is no room for complacency. The UK press’s coverage of Savile between his death in October 2011 and three days after the ITV broadcast of Exposure in October 2012, which named him as a serial abuser of girls (the evidence of his abuse of boys came later), shows a similar sexist complicity to that of Savile’s...
Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are the Orlando murders part of a public health emergency?

...work in countries like Australia. Ziming Xuan: How common are mass shootings? One indication is that after the Umpqua shooting last October, President Obama spoke about the “routine” nature of mass shootings in our country. We’ve regularly heard from the president on the issue. After the Kansas mass shooting in February 2016, Obama also urged the country not to...
Who is Theresa May?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Theresa May?

...Work and Pensions, May took up her more permanent position as Home Secretary after the Conservative Party came to power as the lead partner in the 2010-2015 coalition government. She held that position right up until now – an exceptionally long stint in one of the government’s toughest jobs. Transcript Traditionally in British politics, it was anticipated that Prime...
First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?
Money & Business

First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?

...work when the contract itself does not make provision for the consequences of external shocks in what is commonly described as a force majeure clause. Most contracts do apportion losses and costs of an extreme occurrence, offering lists of events that would qualify. It is unlikely that the recent drop in sterling would qualify as a frustrating event that allows parties to...