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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...think), a mouth a bit full and under the nose which is slightly bigger than average”. Surely, you should be able to do better than that! Don’t despair yet! You are not alone and your partner will not hold it against you (probably). At least you correctly remembered that their mouth is under their nose (although they may want to have a talk with you about the...
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Article 5 mins
A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...systems (‘suffering’ in Buddhism) and then we will seek our desirable future (Nirvana), by using Kalyana Mitta to help sort out the root causes (Samudaya) of the climate crisis by looking at the whole complex system. Finally, we apply eight-fold paths (right thinking, mindfulness, etc.,) as our guiding principles (Meggin), steering us to maintain a middle way. [People...
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Article 10 mins
Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...system feels overwhelming, but we can all work at solving ways it can manifest. There are extra resources imbedded throughout this article which aim to be informative. Now you will hear from Ruby, Lenny and Kate Williams. Ruby I am 21 and at university, but when I was 16, I wasn’t sure how to get my life back on track as my mental health, confidence and world view had...
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Article 15 mins
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...system of sounds, grammar and meaning, children the world over have mastered many of its intricacies by their fifth birthday. By calculating back from the average adolescence’s vocabulary, we estimate a child must be learning about one word every two waking hours from when they begin speaking. Contrast the apparent ease with which children learn language with the effort...
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Article 5 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...thinking about what your brain does You could have come up with many different things. For example, the brain controls our movements and our basically bodily functions such as hunger and thirst. It also allows us to interact with the world around us by interpreting information collected by our sense organs and providing a means by which this can affect our behaviour. Of...
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Article 1 hr
Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...think of something, get it down. It doesn’t have to be a traditional paper notebook (though these are wonderful things). You can use your phone if you would rather. But Get It Down – forgetting that great idea for chapter three that you had in the supermarket queue is so frustrating. And often those ideas have gone for good. Pretend to be Jack Kerouac. Possibly the...
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Article 5 mins
Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India

...system in India? One doctor found a low-tech approach works...High-tech hospitals are now commonplace in Indian cities. But they’re also expensive, putting them out of the reach of the poor. So one Indian doctor found an ultra low-tech approach to delivering health care: writing postcards. [Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah] Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah Over the course of...
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Article 5 mins
The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary
Science, Maths & Technology

The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary

...System is 20 years old. This podcast series, presented by the Senior Lecturer in Computing at The Open University, Blaine Price, tells the story of an extraordinary operating system that in two short decades has grown from a students’ project to the foundation of the internet. Linux runs on everything from your wireless router and Android Smartphone to CERN's most...
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