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Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...source’ and show how politics seeps into our personal, domestic lives (Boland, ‘A Question’, 2000). Aged 26, she wrote ‘The War Horse’ (1975) and later described it as ‘my first political poem’. Trampling suburbia, the horse is a ‘rumour of war’: he maims and uproots plants ‘Like corpses’. He resembles a paramilitary ‘volunteer’. Boland is very...
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Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...source – wave power or sunlight. Rough Scientist Mikey B was given the challenge of stopping the wire rusting over time. He decided to use a lump of magnesium as a sacrificial electrode. To find out more about how magnesium stops iron rusting and how it is used to protect oil drilling platforms and boats, read this extract from the second level OU course Our Chemical...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...source of variation in how people engage with stories (for more on the case for exploring other media, see Turner, in press). So, assuming we get there, and start to identify how fiction – its mechanisms and moderators – can influence different facets of empathy, is this something we would want to cultivate in the real world? Is increasing people’s empathy by...
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Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world

...Source: NASA/Lunar and Planetary Institute/Paul Schenk Density measurements made by Galileo also showed that Europa had a solid, dense interior, probably made of a metallic core surrounded by rock, and a thin atmosphere containing oxygen and ozone. However, one of the mission’s most significant findings was that the moon also had a magnetic field. This meant that Europa...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...sources I have referenced in this piece are: Culture and subjectivity in neo-liberal and postfeminist times Rosalind Gill writing in Subjectivity2009, 25, pages 432-445 The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change Angela McRobbie, published by Sage I discuss this book in a review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity...
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The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...sources, such as cometary ice and water extracted from hydrated minerals, to assess what elements could be released into the ocean. [Interior of Europa and the ocean-seafloor boundary]Figure 3 An illustration of water-rock interactions occurring at the ocean-seafloor interface of Europa. Credit: Lewis Sym.Show descriptionThere are two illustrations side by side. The left...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...Sources of bias in juror decision making. Medicine, Science & the Law. Doi: 10.1177/0258024221080655. Devine, D., & Caughlin, D. E. (2014). Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual characteristics and guilt judgments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 20, 109-134. doi: 10.1037/law0000006. Devine, D., Clayton, L.D., & Dunford, B, B. (2001). Jury...
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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...opened the valves of my hansom for me. My explanation to my soul was that I had no penny in my pocket, and that it would have been folly little short of crime to give so needy a wretch sixpence. But would it? Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not? I advise the reader who finds himself in the like case to give the sixpence, and if he cares...
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