3,191 search results
‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...worked initially as a coal miner and later as a railway clerk. The precise date of the tune is unclear; the first known use of it was in 1907 in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd. [Photo of Capel Rhondda in Hopkinstown]Capel Rhondda, Hopkinstown where John Hughes first performed his ‘Cwm Rhondda’ tune in 1907. Photo by The National Churches Trust. Two important...
View article ‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
Article 5 mins
Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...works”. This indicates the importance of belief in a treatment and the potential for the placebo effect to influence recovery when using cryotherapy. Compression clothing Compression garments are the items of tight clothing worn by athletes that have highly elastic properties which provide compression. These garments have become commonplace in rugby, but what is the...
View article Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Article 5 mins
Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...work on traumatic death, mass death and disaster, the sociologist Anne Eyre, undertook a scholarship to visit the firemen in New York five years after the 9/11 attacks. The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) lost 343 of its members. This was the largest loss of any emergency response agency in history. Eyre noted how western cultures need symbolically to mark sites and...
View article Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Article 5 mins
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge...Mrs Beeton would have been a disaster on Great British Bake Off. In her first published recipe – “A Good Sponge Cake” – the famed Victorian domestic goddess forgot to explain how much flour was required. Hardly a trifling oversight – but nothing that would have troubled Bake Off finalists,...
View article What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
Article 5 mins
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...works. But just because lawmakers can’t make TV more democratic, that doesn’t mean they should make the Internet less so. Imposing new rules that will effectively harm Internet users’ ability to participate online is not a solution. Who Gets Regulated under the AVMS Directive? As the draft Directive explains, An important share of the content stored on video-sharing...
View article Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Article 10 mins
The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...working class of Britain said “no” to the union created by the financial mafia, the globalists and all others.” He added: “Now we hope that Trump will win.” Moderate politicians were more cautious in their reaction. Konstantin Kosachev, an influential chairman of the Federation Council’s (the upper chamber) committee for international affairs, said he hoped...
View article The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Article 5 mins
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...work. Their results are in stark contrast to the estimate by UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), that 0.24% of people or about 136,000 were infected at any given time between late April and early May. If we look critically at the article, as some scientists have done on social media, we can see that it arrives at this number with some very simple statistical...
View article COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Article 10 mins
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...work and make a living in the American colonies thus provided a major external incentive to emigrate. The decision to migrate to the colonies would not have been taken lightly. The sea passage alone took an average of six to eight weeks and was an expensive undertaking. Many of those from poorer social groups, including some Catholics, found that they could only afford...
View article Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
Article 5 mins