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Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?
Science, Maths & Technology

Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?

...work, keeping themselves to themselves and keeping each other in check. This stable community typically remains unchanged throughout our lives, being shaped by our long-term diets or disruption from infections or antibiotic treatments. However, their numbers and diversity do change quickly and temporarily, immediately after we have eaten. For example, microbes that prefer...
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...work, and inconsistent decision making on part of the Home Office. Whilst a growing number of individuals are left in limbo, the government has actively promoted destitution as a policy to encourage returns - it has become increasingly evident that the system itself highly problematic. However, the one aspect of the asylum process which has drawn most attention recently...
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The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces

...work/keep-me-walking-people-living-dementia-and-outdoor-environments Leach J (2018) Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/health/health-studies/mental-health/green-care-contact-nature-can-improve-mental-health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393816/
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Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment

...working in the complementary health sector. However, psychiatrists are only now becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of using dietary approaches to mental health, calling for their peers to support and research this new field of treatment. [Blueberries] Blueberries are a source of vitamin K, vitamin C, fibre, manganese and other antioxidants It is now known that...
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...work over the years has been highlighting the need to more fully recognise the significance of losses unconnected with death – moving away from the idea that grief is our reaction to death, rather than to any major loss regardless of whether bereavement is involved (Harris, 2020). But political grief takes us a step further, to the idea that we can be grieving without...
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How to write to a lover
History & The Arts

How to write to a lover

...work at a print shop and how he wanted to go to America someday. We exchanged swear words in British and American, words for undergarments and body parts. What I wrote to Nick was more of a prose-poem, a few lines about how surprised I was that he’d used the word ‘penultimate’ twice. A few months later, I met Guillaume, a blue-eyed Parisian. He knew little English....
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...worked at Google, Facebook and Pinterest. Our preliminary findings suggest that a lexical approach is insufficient to detect all cases of online misogynoir. Nevertheless, our qualitative analysis reveals that racial gaslighting appears to be a big issue for the women in our case studies and a substantial number of their supporters. The hashtag #BelieveBlackWomen was a...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...working class white males. However, this disadvantage is not reflected in economic, health and employment outcomes of this cohort as they grow up. The methodology was also interesting: the study collected data from a recruited representative sample. It is significant that the Department for Education chooses not to use and report on data about progress against ethnicity...
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