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Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...everyday life, creating a new form of language. Through my fieldwork, the main question I wanted to answer was why they embraced Rastafari so passionately. Despite identifying as Jews, they felt Rastafari to be more flexible than Judaism. In addition, because Rastafari relies on the Levitical code of conduct, for them it is easier to embrace Rastafari practices and...
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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...everyday health, and examines debates about the relative importance of individual lifestyles and looks at wider public-health concerns and the impact of changes in NHS policy and practice on the delivery of health care. Health is increasingly ‘everybody’s business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...Everyday life involves experiences that are easy and those that are difficult. How do these challenges (or lack of challenges) impact motivation? Research tells us that what matters is what people think ease and difficulty mean for them. Both easy and difficult experiences can be demotivating. If homework feels easy, for instance, a student might think: “This is stupid....
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...English culture, a nice town, it stopped it being a place like Bath or Chester, or Stratford or even Leamington just down the road. [Coventry [Image: AmandaBHSlater under CC-BY-SA licence]] Coventry [Image: AmandaBHSlater under CC-BY-SA licence] In the end it’s the nice towns that have worked best economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...English chemist, William Henry Perkin. In 1856, 18-year-old Perkin was experimenting in his home laboratory, trying to synthesise the anti-malarial drug quinine (found nowadays in tonic water). In an experiment with a compound called aniline, one of the simplest chemical components of coal tar,* he obtained a black precipitate. On testing its solubility, he
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...English schools) started by conducting an audit to determine the opportunities currently on offer for children to read for pleasure and the space made available to talk about their choices with one another and with teachers. Most found that adults were the ones controlling the reading on offer to children. In particular, talk about texts was confined to the official...
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Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...English wherever possible as that is the world our students inhabit. Secondly how much new has been developed at the leading edge? Is there anything new or are we just shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic? Finally, I’m not sure that to be a true STiP practitioner we fully realise the extent to which we have to leave our original disciplines behind – or expect others...
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Finding creativity in orbit?
Science, Maths & Technology

Finding creativity in orbit?

...of usage of the English language. Let’s get our priorities right! Maybe if so-called “creative" get a few minutes exposure to the space environment, it may help to educate them as to what is really important – namely the Universe beyond their little worlds! [A branch of FCUK and the large Hadron collider] FCUK versus CERN: Where is the real creative thought?...
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