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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...care for clothes is equally as crucial for getting the most out of them. Laundry accounts for around one-quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing. Washing less frequently, using larger loads, tumble drying less and following the care label all make a difference to how long a t-shirt will last and could cut the carbon footprint by 7%. Half of the 120 million t-shirts...
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An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward
Health, Sports & Psychology

An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward

...care. Practitioners' perspective Practitioners and professionals discuss the video "An Untimely Death on Passchendaele Ward", reflecting on the balance of care and control in mental health treatment. About the course Jonathan Leach of the course team outlines The Open University course and who it's aimed at. Getting involved Jonathan Leach of the course team talks about...
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Audio 1 hr 23 mins
Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...care we all expect to receive. The difference between success and failure in healthcare depends largely on having educated and trained professionals and their co-workers. Modern healthcare also relies on tools, machines and medicines. And of course, healthcare professionals and their co-workers’ scope of practice, their technical gadgetry and medicinal substances are...
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Article 10 mins
The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...caring and repairing for clothing items, now deemed disposable. Our then neighbour, a retired engineer in his 80s, carefully maintained his work tools, accompanied by boxes of nails and screws of all shapes and sizes just in case they were ever needed. These memories are remnants of a recent time when, in everyday life, we had the capability to re-jig, alter, mend,...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...care and respect I have for my wife. But I will also call upon it to describe the unshakeable bonds of kinship and history I share with my family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends. I’ll even use it in relation to our cheeky dog Daisy, the music of Tom Waits, Sunday morning lie ins and many other things. Clearly, whatever love is, it spans a...
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Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...cared for by a non-human surrogate. [A female wolf in the snow] Shall I be mother? In Kipling’s original The Jungle Book, published in 1894, the “man-cub” Mowgli is taken in by a wolf pack after he is separated from his human parents by Shere Kahn, the tiger. The choice of wolves as parental stand-ins for the lost human toddler is arguably more plausible than him...
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Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought
Nature & Environment

Hidden soil allies – fungi that help plants face drought

...care? Think of mycorrhizal fungi as “extra roots” for plants. When they attach to roots, they spread thin filaments into the soil, reaching far beyond where roots can go. This partnership is a true exchange: the plant provides the fungus with sugars and lipids coming from photosynthesis, and the fungus facilitates the absorption of water and nutrients like phosphorus...
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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...care and “front-loading” a promised £8 billion might just keep the NHS on the rails. Or maybe not. Hospitals anticipate £2.2 billion in deficits this year. And a seven-day NHS will cost hospitals £1 billion-£1.5 billion a year, plus the same again for primary care. Together, these costs could soak up the new funds. Public health and social care budgets are not...
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