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...out about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications [Making soap] [The Sumerians] used a slurry of ashes and water to remove grease from raw wool and cloth so that it could be dyed. Sumerian priests and temple attendants purified themselves before sacred rites, and in the absence of soap, they too probably used ashes and water. The slippery solutions clean...

...out of work or are unable to develop their careers fully as a consequence. Encouraging an open culture where people feel able to talk about what they are going through and any support which they might need in the workplace – such as access to a desk fan, available drinking water, and appropriate flexibility – can help to normalise menopause and perimenopause and help...

...out that if we recognise that fiction might support empathy, we have to accept the opposite: that it can also promote stereotypical and dehumanising views (Keen, 2007). That would depend on whether fiction influences empathy by providing social information, which gets internalised and later applied (and that social information could be biased and problematic), or whether...