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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...courses and qualifications. Hip Hop Hip hop is a Black radical knowledge movement that emerged in post-industrial urban North America in the 1970s and that has now become a global phenomenon and source of cultural inspiration for marginalised youth from around the world. The term ‘hip hop’ was coined in the late 1970s, possibly in the South Bronx, New York City, to...
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...courses: References "10 Amazing Facts about the Brain". Available at: https://qbi.uq.edu.au/10-amazing-facts-about-brain. Accessed 24 January 2024. Centre for Mental Health (2017) Mental health at work: The business costs ten years on . Available at: https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/mental-health-work-business-costs-ten-years/ (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024)...
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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...course of her two-month stay, she slowly found her feet again, thanks, in part, to a drug regimen that included an antidepressant, an antipsychotic, an antianxiety medication and a sleeping pill. But just a few months after her release, Heidi unexpectedly found herself pregnant with her first child: a girl. “She was a surprise baby,” Heidi recalls. “Whether the...
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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...course. In postwar Britain, much of the drinking took place in pubs. It was mainly men that drank there, and they generally drank beer. Relatively little changed in the two decades after The Pub and the People was published. It wasn’t until the 1960s that British drinking culture began to shift in more fundamental ways, and the beginnings of the era of Peak Booze can be...
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...course everybody has mobile phones, they’ve got a little camcorder, just some form of technology on them to be able to produce a film, to take pictures. So as a young person I’d say, do you know, I just think it’s absolutely fantastic being able to get into this industry now with everything that’s available; I don’t think there’s really a better time for it...
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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...course, this was a deliberately bad presentation, but it gives us some clues about errors we can easily avoid. Sometimes speakers do things that irritate the audience because they’re nervous – people jangle keys in their pocket, chew their hair or constantly fiddle with a pen. Sometimes people don’t feel well-prepared so they read from a script, or they say ‘um’...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...courses, or burnished the golden corn-ricks clustered near the long roofs of some midland homestead, he saw the full-uddered cows driven from their pasture to the early milking. Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless, unofficial air, as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd, with a slow and slouching...
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Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...course, I think he should get the prize at some point). For some, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical:
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