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What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...free vote on the electoral system to be used in the forthcoming European parliamentary elections. Steel had hoped this would result in the House of Commons supporting a proportional system. When this was not delivered, partly because more than 70 Labour MPs abstained, the pact was effectively over. The only substantive policy achieved by the Liberals was the...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...free resources to help more with developing ACT skills and it may also be useful to discuss this further with a trustworthy colleague or friend. There are also further resources you may find useful in the Applying Psychology at Work Hub, including: What's in your toolbox? The value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace. References American Psychological...
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DIY: Generate your own electricity
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Generate your own electricity

...free at the other end and then cover the windings with insulating tape. Remove a cm or so of the insulation from the two end wires by scraping off the enamel, and connect them to the bulb holder. Fit the bulb into the holder. Pass the bolt through the hole drilled into the base of the magnet, and fasten it by tightening the nut. Fix the bolt into the chuck of a hand...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...free to help to backfill the grave, in a practice that is known as taking the shovel. Why people voluntarily dig graves [Mobile tea and coffee hut, outside Killeen Graveyard, Louisburgh, co. Mayo.]Mobile tea and coffee hut, outside Killeen Graveyard, Louisburgh, co. Mayo. The graveyard is a place that is so frequently visited by local families as a 'living space' that it...
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...course will help you discover why Ireland was the perfect melting pot to establish a horror genre which has taken over the world. While Irish literature is often associated with the Nobel Prize-winning poetry of Seamus Heaney or the famously difficult modernist prose of James Joyce, the Gothic tradition gives us a whole new lens through which to read the legacy of...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...course, but yes, they have definitely downgraded the possibility of these alarming tipping points. The methane burp from the Arctic is one of them, etc. RH: There’s still a lot of uncertainties about that, you would agree? MR: There’s a lot of uncertainties about everything, yes. RH: There are indeed. Which makes me, as an interviewer, slightly worried when I hear...
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Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...course, I am envious. All I want is to do what he does. Is that so much to ask? Here are a few of his first paragraphs. They are promises, whispered softly and calmly, that something good is coming. Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start. They stood out, conspicuous against the heterogenousness of the world, by...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...course, may be neither denial nor despair, but to take humanity’s new existential situation seriously and conceive of it as an opportunity. Nietzsche at times wrote as if he wanted to use Becoming as the most general metaphysical concept with which to refer to reality. This he thought would be the first conceptual step in an attempt to develop better methods and...
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