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How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...think their deaths should reflect a notion of their individuality. But there are certain cultural scripts for how we societally evaluate some deaths as being relatively good, and these can vary between cultures. And COVID-19 is challenging a lot of those scripts, especially in countries like the UK and the USA. [stages of live vector] Firstly, a timely death is often part...
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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...System 1 and System 2 thinking: System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations (Kahneman, 2011, pp.20–21) Figure 4 Daniel Kahneman System 1, in other words, is your intuition at work.......
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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...think of as robots: autonomous machines that can sense their surroundings, respond, move, do things and, above all, interact with us humans. We all recognise R2-D2, WALL-E and scores of their lesser-known kin. The unnerving thing is that their nonfictional counterparts are extremely close at hand. Some press stories are exotic – those about ‘sexbots’ being among the...
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Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age
Nature & Environment

Indian summer monsoon amplified global warming 130,000 years ago, helping end ice age

...system’s ancient past, we found it was highly sensitive to climate warming 130,000 years ago. Our new study published in Nature Geoscience showed that the Indian summer monsoon pulled heat and moisture into the northern hemisphere when Earth was entering a warmer climate around 130,000 years ago. This caused tropical wetlands to expand northwards – habitats that act...
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Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support
Science, Maths & Technology

Design forensic psychology: parenting education and support

...system. She is also a practicing service design leader and mentor in public services, with a specific focus on the intersection of design and psychology...Incarceration and family separation can therefore lead to intergenerational cycles of trauma, incarceration, and family separation. (Sherwood and Kendall, 2013, p. 91). This research explores the needs of women in the...
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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...Think of Edinburgh and cultural events such as the Fringe, or think of London and its stock markets. Being a city is to be elevated to a greater level of national significance. Throughout much of history, the city has been considered a space where the citizens were free from the back-breaking labour that defined rural life. According to geographer Yi Fu Tuan, the...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work for EHE private candidates. Quite simply, they had no history with teachers marking their work as students learnt independently using books, their own research, YouTube, past papers and family or friends to support their learning. Teaching myself When we think of young people taking exams we usually think of them...
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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)

...think that anyone really can. What I can do (and try in few words to explain) is to make some suggestions about why I think this has all happened. And in a complex issue like this perhaps half a loaf is better than no bread. So when Merrill Ring asked me to explain Brexit to an American audience, I decided to give it a go. The British Conservative Party (the Tories) have...
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