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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...physical and a psychological awakening after being neurologically trapped for decades. It was made into a now rarely seen documentary for Yorkshire Television which was eventually picked up by Hollywood and made into the movie starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. But it was The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat that became his signature book. It was a series of...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...physically hard-to-reach, we can now address many situations that were previously too fleeting, long-term, intimate or dispersed to investigate. Thirdly, some methods simply did not exist before recent technological advances: big data and networked social media data are markedly different to the material (and governance) of large census surveys (although nothing is...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...physical ability to speak. Such a chimera could conceivably be raised in a society that hasn’t thought about how to address this and places no weight on its enhanced cognition. If enhanced cognitive abilities are a basis for enhanced moral status, this might be ethically problematic. But confronting this problem requires a sophisticated understanding of what “moral...
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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...physical shape!” as they worried about French audience reactions. In fact, when reporting the story, some Francophone journalists translated his compliment as “vous êtes en grande forme”, which could be easily understood by French readers as the more respectable “you are in great health”. Translators are very much divided when it comes to whether Trump’s...
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Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...physical appearance and clothes – radio relies purely on the voice when it comes to creating that initial impression. In real life, the way we speak is central to the way we are perceived by others. We use our voices both consciously (often strategically) and unconsciously in order to help construct the very identities that we perform and negotiate in our day-to-day...
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The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...physical activity, whether it helps the host acquire soft power (or even leads to “soft disempowerment”), and the behaviour and treatment of supporters during tournaments. CONIFA is relatively new, and currently operates in the margins – scaled somewhere between “mega” and “minor”. Consequently, though the journalist Steve Menary has outlined the history of...
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Harry Potter and Parenting
Education & Development

Harry Potter and Parenting

...physically alive, remains a vital presence in the stories. One of the most poignant scenes in the series occurs in the first book, when Harry discovers the magical Mirror of Erised. He thinks he can see his dead parents, waving back at him, until Dumbledore informs him that what people see in the mirror is simply their deepest desire (Erised = desire backwards). In an...
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Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions
History & The Arts

Ireland cycling history: whizzing in all directions

...physically impossible for women to ride such machines; if Irish women wished to cycle, most were restricted to riding much heavier, if safer and slower, tricycles, although a small number took to riding chain-driven ladies' safety bicycles towards the end of the 1880s. Smooth operators: the pneumatic revolution in Ireland cycling Most young Irishmen who cycled were...
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