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Five tips for relaxing during difficult times
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips for relaxing during difficult times

...free examples from a UK charity (The Somerville Foundation) are an audio clip of a beach as well as a forest visualisation exercise. These can be found on the Somerville Foundation website. 4: Progressive muscle relaxation – focusing on your body… [figure meditating with calming words surrounding them] Some people prefer to focus on their body and things physical when...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...free or choosing a bank that does not support the fossil fuel industry. Lobbying or petitioning employers, universities, or pension funds that support the fossil fuel industry to divest, are additional ways individuals or groups can engage with divestment to take climate action. As well as imposing financial pressure, the divestment movement also aims to help remove the...
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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...progress and dedication to the company. And it is clear to us and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google. I feel very fortunate to have someone as talented as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations. This article was originally published at Global Voices Online under a CC-BY licence...
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Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London
Society, Politics & Law

Why New York-style rent controls would not work in London

...free-market argument against rent controls is that when they cap rents below their market value, it leaves too many tenants chasing too few properties. This also leads to a decline in quality as landlords seek to cut costs. And controls that curb rent increases for existing tenants can lead to landlords setting a deliberately high rent when a new tenant moves in or...
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Friction welding
Science, Maths & Technology

Friction welding

...free cutting steel. Design: Process most suitable for components of circular cross-section. Non-circular components may be joined by “orbital friction welding machines”. A wide variety of joint designs are possible in solid and tubular components. Sizes range from 5 to 120 mm o.d. in solid, or 10–250 mm o.d. in tube. Weld areas vary from 500 to 20,000 mm2....
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Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...free easy availability has had a marked effect on homeless users including those subject to investigation in Operation Romford. Importing and selling legal highs has now been criminalised by the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. The maximum penalty for breaking this law is 7 years in prison. The act defines a psychoactive substance as one which is capable of producing a...
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Beethoven: The Expert View
History & The Arts

Beethoven: The Expert View

...free agent’, composed glorious and enduring music, which he marketed to the full, is famous for his deafness and for his elaborate sketchbooks, as well as being a star pianist and teacher, courted by aristocratic women. He has been variously described as eccentric, alienated, imposing, amorous and morose. It is often said that Beethoven’s life and music divide into...
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In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?
Digital & Computing

In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

...free” behind the wheel, because the law allows them to do so providing their hands are on the wheel. This implies it is a safe alternative. But research clearly shows that the driving behaviour and crash risk of a phone-using driver (whether that is hand-held or hands-free) is similar to, and sometimes worse than, that of a drunk driver. Our research has shown that...
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