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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...central government department said: “When you work really, really hard and things get stressed, you focus on the task rather than on the individual.” Another constraint faced by organisations is the difficulty of creating and embedding a single, clear, consistent vision, particularly in large diverse organisations that may have been through a number of
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...central to Le Guin’s imaginative fiction: non-action, living harmoniously with the self and the universe, respecting the natural rhythms of life. The ying-yang symbol of the balance of opposites is reflected in the “equilibrium” which holds everything together in Earthsea. As Master Hand says: “To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” The same symbol is a...
The Olympic torch: the truth
History & The Arts

The Olympic torch: the truth

...central element. Olympia did have an eternal fire, which was kept burning in honour of Hestia (the goddess of the hearth) and was used to light all the other sacrificial fires throughout the complex of temples. The Ancient Olympics also had the Hekatomb, a religious ceremony that involved sacrificing 100 oxen and burning their legs on a large pyre in honour of Zeus....
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...central train station. A bike lane is painted across their floor to underscore one of its numerous missions: making Bologna into Italy’s best city for bicycling. Other missions include: Rehabilitating drug and alcohol addicts; Providing services to disabled people; Offering job training and placement for recovering addicts and prisoners; Helping runaway youth and their...
What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...central Amman for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), where members of several European embassies and the US embassy unofficially attended the event as a show of support, sparking condemnation of the US ambassador by Jordanian authorities. IDAHOT was nevertheless observed in Amman the following year, although in a confidential...
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...central issues in therapy as they are perceived by the client. We can then work with each client on how (and indeed if) weight relates to these. Having said this, it is important to see weight as just one aspect of a complex profile of diversity which means clients (and therapists) experience varying amounts of marginalisation and privilege. Gender, sexuality and...
Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...centrality of the poetic imagination, poets could therefore claim to be interpreters of reality. Shelley asserted that ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.’ The Romantics found fresh ways to express themselves: their reverence for nature, in its awesome majesty, was to prove a lasting legacy. Drawing upon the environment for inspiration, they...
Banking crimes without end
Society, Politics & Law

Banking crimes without end

...central and local Government – that is, everyone. None of which is yet to mention the biggest crimes of all, emerging during 2007 and culminating in the financial crisis. In the UK, the response to a crisis precipitated by long term and systematic fraud and theft was a rescue of private capital from the public purse, via a series of bailouts – the first tranche of...