3,152 search results

Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...free-helpline/female-genital-mutilation Generic mental health support resources Breathing Space Scotland www.breathingspace.scot/ Centre for Clinical Interventions Looking After Yourself/anxiety www.cci.health.wa.gov.au Every Mind Matters www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/ Lifeline www.lifelinehelpline.info/ MIND www.mind.org.uk Minding Your Head www.mindingyourhead.info...
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...courses and qualifications. Currently in the UK, 13 families a day suffer the heartbreak of losing their baby before, during or shortly after birth. That’s around 4,500 babies a year. And an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage (Sands, 2023). Yet, while this number reveals the scale of the problem, much less is known about some of the ways bereaved fathers...
A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
History & The Arts

A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show

...course, last night’s show was recorded hours before the Republican debate actually started. There was and will be no witty recap of Thursday night’s debate from America’s leading political satirist. After 16 years of speaking truth to power, the jester has hung up his cap and bells. A long, successful run In 2003, the year the Daily Show won its first Emmy award,...
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...course, for many suffering patients for whom Sacks could offer no respite. What we can learn from the life of Sacks The majority of Sacks’ adult life is marked by two distinct periods. The first, as a young man, is characterised by its vigour: motorcycling across America, weightlifting, experimenting with drugs, and youthful lust and love. His later life, however, is...
Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...course and become for a short while “the kind of life that can be told as a story – that is, one in which events appear to have meaning”. As the astounding news breaks that she is to publish a second novel, Harper Lee must be feeling like her life has become a story – a story which the meaning of remains just a little hidden and mysterious. [Harper Lee and George...
From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...This account of the universality of flatulence humor is, of course, a matter of debate. But one thing is beyond dispute: farts are funny. They always have been. And, it appears, they always will be. [The Conversation] James Spiegel, Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Taylor University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?

...course, President Dilma Rousseff, whose popularity had fallen into single digits, has been impeached by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. She is temporarily suspended from office awaiting a trial by the Senate. Her vice president, Michel Temer, is interim president, but he is being investigated for campaign irregularities and possible involvement in the “Petrolao,”...
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...course some of this group were for staying in the EU. They were more likely to think leaving would hurt the economy (and reduce British influence) and some of them will have thought lower immigration would be damaging. Nevertheless, before the campaign got going, the issue of immigration was not what made poor Brits anti-EU. Brexit was, rather, a measure of their grim...