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Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...attention of public and academic audiences alike. The “wolf children of Midnapore” is a particularly well-known historical case, where two young girls were found living with a she-wolf and her cubs. The girls did not speak (but howled), moved on all fours, and when they were taken to a local orphanage, preferred the company of the resident dogs to the other children....
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...attention recently is that of immigration detention, perhaps the most widely recognised area of contention in the British asylum system. While the plethora of in-depth research on this area can be found elsewhere (see Border Criminologies), it is worth saying that around 30,000 people pass through Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) every year, facilities which incarcerate...
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The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces

...attention); helping people to feel they share the therapy space and relationship; freedom from everyday routines and environments that may be associated with difficulties; and the holistic benefit to their physical as well as psychological wellbeing. Whilst considerations are needed for outdoor therapy including maintaining confidentiality, physical and psychological...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...attention to the fingers of the boy which ‘he said exhibited the characteristic attributed to the negro of being partially web-footed’. The boy seemed intelligent, but Dr Hunt, Head of the Glasgow Anthropological Society, said this wasn’t evidence of adult intelligence in ‘negroes’ as their intellectual development will stop at an early age. Another...
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...attention it deserves is the potential for political events, processes, or ideologies to give rise to grief, and grief of major proportions. This is what is increasingly being referred to as political grief (Thompson et al., 2025). You might feel it after an election result that dismays you. You might experience it when a government makes a policy decision that conflicts...
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The art of performing under pressure
Health, Sports & Psychology

The art of performing under pressure

...attention focus: Controlled, Total Awareness, Prepared’. As he approached the four brothers, his head up, his back was straight and his gaze unwavering. Alred: ‘Confident body language, Purposeful, Inevitable: Create Inevitability by Practising’. [Twelve Yards Book cover] When Eastwood saw an extra brother sitting on a nearby fence, he revised his plan. Alred:...
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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...attention on less powerful groups, such as certain neighbourhoods, social classes and age groups, and brought them into the criminal justice system. It was argued that states and others thus not only portrayed them as the main cause of crime, but deployed resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...attention to word choice. Why was this particular word chosen from a whole range of words that might have said much the same? Looking at manuscript drafts can be really enlightening, showing how much effort was expended in order to find the most appropriate or most evocative expression. Activity 1 Click on the link below to read and compare the two versions of William...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs