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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...work, an experience which may have provided them with a sense of pride or value. During later life, they may also encounter physical difficulties that can limit what they are able to do, so that they may have to give up lifelong-loved activities. If we also begin to lose skills through cognitive difficulties, such as those associated with dementia, this can have an even...
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Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...working on many different types of innovation. Some of it is really evolutionary and incremental and some of it is much more revolutionary and radical and will really change the world. Sometimes radical change is not appropriate and it's certainly not possible – it's remarkable difficult sometimes to find the idea that really will change the world." One problem is that...
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Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle

...as a site of abortion surveillance’,Gender, Work and Organization, Early View. doi: 10.1111/gwao/13100. Swyddfa Gwella Iechyd ac Anghyfartaledd (2023) ‘Abortion statistics, England and Wales, 2021’. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics-for-england-and-wales-2021/abortion-statistics-england-and-wales-2021 (Cyrchwyd: 3 June 2024)....
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...works in the selection of parliamentary candidates. While it recommends the use of more checks and balances, a more transparent selection process, the widening of diversity within the aspirant applicant pool and participation by the public, there is nothing in the paper to address the need to screen for integrity and trustworthiness. Looking at the actual assessment...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...working people who are keen to learn German; not a trace of refusal or resistance to learning the language can be heard in their voices. Even so, the outcome of their language learning efforts is far from impressive. The youngest in the group, 16-year-old Noor, seems to be making the best progress but even she explains that the “constant worrying” about her family...
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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...works the religious underworld. Wilderness years Ali’s refusal to serve in the armed forces resulted in a five-year legal struggle, during which time Ali was stripped of his title. During his exile, Ali had angered the NoI by announcing his wish to return to boxing if this was ever possible. Elijah, the supreme minister, denounced Ali for playing “the white man’s...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...Work campaign successfully forced shops to hire black employees in the 1920s; in the 1950s and 60s, rent strikes and pressure groups campaigned on housing, education and employment issues. [Harlem riots 1964] Harlem riots, 1964 The frustrations often found more violent outlets, too. In 1935 a (false) rumour that the police had killed a shoplifter sparked a riot which saw...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...works of this time called the women’s quarters in Middle Eastern homes – explicitly situated lesbian sexuality as a ‘vice’ of the East. (It is also framed simply as a reaction to male homosexuality: in the absence of virile heterosexual men, women turn to each other, rather than this being a normal sexual desire in its own right.) The Fabulous Story, which is...
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