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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...English town has closer links than most to the modern Olympics...Despite the perception that it was Baron Pierre de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...English alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P 4 Q R S T U 5 V W X Y Z Jump forward a few millennia to the France of Napoleon Bonaparte who wanted his soldiers to be able to communicate silently and in the dark. This led Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots...
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Ever Wondered About... Eggs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Eggs?

...English and Greek and means “yellow”. December 3rd 1988 was Black Saturday for eggs when Edwina Currie, then Junior Health Minister, stated during an impromptu interview for ITN, that “Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now infected with salmonella”. Next time you’re boiling eggs, try putting lemon juice or vinegar into the water. Make a hole...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...English’ on ‘French kissing’. ‘Don’t Speak to the Brits…’ is full of the unsaid and is politically charged. Written in sparse, short stanzas, the poem contains a lot of white space: you might say this suggests gaps in the story and silencing. In her interview with Adam Wyeth in 2020, Colette Bryce explains she ‘never set out to write “about” The...
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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...English literature and emphasised the importance of Art History’s interdisciplinarity – that is, how the subject intersects with other research areas. Chatterjee is especially interested in the shared concerns of Art History and the History of Science, which has enabled her to explore the relationship between visual cultures and the natural environment. Martin Myrone,...
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Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...English. Interest in the area has since expanded quickly: so far, 510 academic papers reference the effect in 2015, compared to just 35 in 2004. Although the effect is easy to describe, and feels intuitively “right” when looking at some examples of human-like agents such as reborn dolls or game characters, it is notoriously difficult to research such a circular and...
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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...English as “All Hallows Day”, and thus the eve is Halloween. It is quite plausible that there was already a seasonal festival of some sort at this date and that some of the features of this festival were transferred to Halloween. The word calan is borrowed from the Latin calends, meaning “the first day of the month”, while gaeaf means “winter”. A common claim...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...English and German at Trinity College, where she attended a creative writing group with Michael Longley. She has, to date, published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Found Architecture, Selected Poems, was...
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