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Five surprising facts about sex and the COVID pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the COVID pandemic

...course. It ebbs and flows as life takes over and time for intimacy dwindles. While identified as one of the most private aspects of our lives, sex is also affected by external influences, such as our jobs. Research has now shown how our sex lives have been deeply impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. So here are five ways in which the pandemic has impacted sex lives. 1....
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...courses that look at African American experience, is one way in which the line can be crossed. ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ and ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ I’m looking here at two of the prolific canon of work that Du Bois produced, his study of African American urban life, The Philadelphia Negro, and his Homeric account (i.e. epic and poetic), The Souls of Black...
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Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...course S315 Chemistry: further concepts and applications where this article was adapted from. Explore articles and free courses or study with the OU References Flexman, A.M., Del Vicario, G. and Schwarz, S.K.W. (2007) ‘Dark Green Blood in the Operating Theatre’, The Lancet, vol. 369, p. 1972. Hazes B., Kalk K. H., Hol W. G. J., Magnus K. A., Bonaventura C.,...
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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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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...course 2010 where we are now, which was another film, the year we made contact and here we are we still haven’t made contact. Frank Drake: Well we should have. What happened was people became sceptical, particularly people who are in charge of the purse strings, of the money. And we started in the mid-1980s to construct extremely powerful SETI search systems. And this...
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Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...courses and qualifications. Researchers have known for some time that the way employers treat their staff can have a huge impact on their mental health and wellbeing, especially around life events. Paid employment can impact health and wellbeing positively by generating a sense of self identity and purpose, the act of being in paid work itself can be seen as...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...course, this does not apply to all workers across the board in the same way. The largest group working under these conditions is made up of female workers who have been in the UK for more than ten years, and either hold British citizenship or have a leave to remain and right to work status. The main reason why they have to continue working under these conditions is their...
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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...course, no suggestion that any of them were fixed. So, how can we go about using the evidence of unexpected losses of games as evidence that those games were in some way deliberately fixed? Crunching the numbers This area of statistical evidence has close structural similarities to what could be called “the nurse problem”. This is where a medical professional has been...
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