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What do sports authorities have to do to take account of transgender competitors?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do sports authorities have to do to take account of transgender competitors?

...simple right? Wrong. The move away from using reproductive organs or chromosomes was linked to scientific evidence which showed that “nature” is a lot messier than we think. There is no neat and clear distinction between “male” and “female” – and no way of “measuring” or “testing” sex based on reproductive organs or chromosomes alone. There are much...
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Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?
Money & Business

Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?

...simple goods like iron ore but is much more complicated for goods like cars, which are produced in international value chains using components from around the world. In our recent study, we show that rules of origin in free trade agreements distort global value chains, deterring final goods producers from importing inputs from non-member countries. We construct a unique...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...simple principle: that tackling bullying requires sweating the small stuff and taking some small practical steps. Step 1: find some higher ground Being bullied feels like drowning so you first need to get to safer ground. This involves getting out of bullying hot spots. This can be anything from avoiding the smoking breaks or those after-work drinks that seem to end up...
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Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities

...simple stone shrine underneath with modest offerings of flowers or garments or small idols of gods and goddesses. This signals the cultural, religious and spiritual importance of these trees to people. Without such active protection many of these trees would have succumbed to rapid urban development. But it is not just their non-instrumental spiritual value, these trees...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...simple environmental conservation activities under the military regime. Sadly, much of this work has stopped, following the military coup in February 2021. Eighteen months before the coup I had taken another step in my own transformation by starting my doctoral studies on how education for sustainable development can be embedded in Myanmar’s Universities, based on the...
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Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...simple pattern of rhyme and rhythm. So both poems would work well set to music, though you might find Tynan’s more like a hymn than a folk-song as you read it through. Then both poems seem to celebrate the mother as a strong, idealised figure- ‘I am the pillars of the house’ - who is able to protect her children and create a nurturing home. As for differences, you...
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The selective breeding of dogs
Science, Maths & Technology

The selective breeding of dogs

...simple genetic rules. Traits are often referred to as being dominant or recessive. Just like humans, dogs have two copies of each gene (one inherited from mum and one from dad), but the letters making up each gene can be slightly different. If a gene influences for a particular trait (such as hair colour) then slight differences in the letters in a gene can result in...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...simple to deliver and easy to identify the local political actors who are ultimately responsible when things go wrong. In Italy, where it is significantly harder for many people to get their waste disposed of, this may well reflect the much shorter political terms office there make it much harder to call local politicians to account. [Colours of Finland] Research suggests...
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