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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...work has been done – vegan is another country that may as well be the land of Oz for all the purchase it has on the ethical identity of the imagined Fray Bentos consumer. Insofar as the viewer identifies with the pie-eater, veganism is profoundly uninteresting; ethics cannot trump the pleasures of the flesh. This lack of interest in vegan ethics is facilitated when...
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...working out how to store it. Some of us find ourselves in a constant struggle about what to get rid of and where to get rid of it (car boot? charity shop? free cycling?). And if we want to keep it, where to put it? A quick internet search returns plenty of ‘professional organisers’ and life coaches who will offer you cognitive techniques by which you can let go of...
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...works rediscovered in the Renaissance, a burgeoning creative literature, and the description of new scientific activities. Thousands of words were borrowed from Latin and Greek in this period e.g. education, metamorphosis, critic, conscious. An internal feature which characterised the movement towards ModE was the Great Vowel Shift – an important series of linked...
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...work then; nor is it working now, though the contextual circumstances are different (including levels of private debt which have reached unprecedented levels in many countries such as the UK, USA, Japan and China). The 2007/2008 crash has been our equivalent present day misfortune. So why haven’t the lessons of Keynes been learned? Looking after vested interests The...
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...work being carried out on this topic, that the multiple-impact hypothesis solves many issues that arose after the giant impact hypothesis and it presents a more reliable mechanism for the formation of the Moon. However, we must not be naive enough to believe that just because this theory is currently the least problematic, there is still a possibility that future findings...
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...work within the guidelines and policies of your organisation, especially in relation to wound cleansing and the use of dressings. Tissue viability practitioners are an invaluable source of information and will be able to give you up-to-date advice on the appropriate care for each wound type. Your organisation may have a tissue viability practitioner; if this is so you may...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...work in the colonial education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from Ghana’s capital, Accra, has the words ‘Gold Coast’ crossed out in several places and Ghana handwritten in ink above it. Follow the money, as the saying goes. That golden thread of whiteness breaks, unexpectedly, when I complete the ‘place of birth’ part of the application form...
Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant

...working: digital communication and collaboration...Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant: 1.3 Cyd-destun eich sefydliad - Mae'n bosibl bod gan eich sefydliad strategaethau llesiant a chynhwysiant ar waith eisoes, ond ai dogfennau polisi yn unig ydynt, neu a ydynt yn cael eu corffori drwy ymddygiadau a sgiliau staff ar bob lefel a gwerthoedd, diwylliant ac ymarferion yn...