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The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill
History & The Arts

The legacy of the Victorian prison treadmill

...health benefits to prisoners. Reports from Ipswich claimed that prisoners willingly queued to get a turn on the wheel. The women at Northallerton Prison claimed that climbing the treadmill was less arduous than the prison laundry. However, counter evidence soon emerged of the harm inflicted by the treadmill. Some men developed hernias, lung damage and rheumatism....
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...publication in the 21st century.) But you may as well be a genius for the next 30 days, at least. Harness your obsessions. We are all hung up on something – the terrible ex, the neighbours from hell, mothers, spiders, fitting rooms, flying or being alone. Anything you like. Some of the best stories come from the deepest and darkest obsessions (just ask Alfred...
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Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...health risk for consumers.” Read in full at The Grocer: Chlorinated chicken explained: why do the Americans treat their poultry with chlorine? What do the public think? A 2012 piece in the journal Food Control exploring how consumers in the UK reacted to various approaches to reducing the presnce of Campylobacter in food discovered a lack of support for chlorine...
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Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...health and safety. While they have the right to expect you to pay for what you have eaten, they also have a responsibility to you for the food they have sold you. Activity 2 The importance of law Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Here you are going to read an extract about the importance of law. You may need a dictionary to look up some words if you are unsure of their...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the harms of social and economic inequalities. This means shifting away from a punishment-orientated response towards one grounded in helping and...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...health. The self-portrait is surrounded by an invisible energy and sense of threat, that cannot be seen but are nevertheless conveyed. Transcript This beautiful, evocative video film, created by a group of Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, is framed around Mwaffaq’s poem to Mother Earth. Bringing together reflections on multiple overlapping crisis around inequality,...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...health and wellbeing, as well as their relationships with each other, and with women and children. Alongside online surveys conducted for this international study, we convened focus groups with men between the ages of 18 and 30 in London and the north of England, representing diverse backgrounds in terms of ethnicity, religion and class. The men we spoke to were keenly...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...Health and Wellbeing courses With a reported 2m people running in the UK and an estimated 10m in the US, the activity is on the rise, and fast becoming the most popular form of exercise. Running fits as snuggly into modern life as an eager foot into a plush pair of new trainers. It can be done alone and in almost any environment. As a solitary activity, there is no need...
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