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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published on the 19th July. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries. The paper estimates that in South-East Asia alone “as much as 15% to...
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Article 10 mins
Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines

...Health and Wellbeing courses Self-care is a concept that has been gaining further momentum over the past decade. However, it is a term that has gained new meaning in 2020; a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of our lives, disrupting how we live and work on a day-to-day basis, while also impacting on how we perceive the future. In combination,...
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Article 15 mins
Jury Hub Conversation: Hannah Fawcett, Matt Brooks, Hayley Ness
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Hannah Fawcett, Matt Brooks, Hayley Ness

...health, and forensic psychology. His Ph.D. research focused on positive psychological change after traumatic and stressful life events, known as posttraumatic growth, which is his core research area. He is a member of the MMU Health Psychology and Communities Research Centre, the Stress, Health and Performance Cluster in the Faculty of Health and Education, and the Life...
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Video 55 mins
An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), governments have been passing new laws and reviving old ones which result in the punishment of people with no fixed abode. People without access to land or property are denied the freedom to roam, sit, eat, wash or sleep in public spaces. Or, where local authorities do lawfully permit street homeless people to access and use public...
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Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), governments have been passing new laws and reviving old ones which result in the punishment of people with no fixed abode. People without access to land or property are denied the freedom to roam, sit, eat, wash or sleep in public spaces. Or, where local authorities do lawfully permit street homeless people to access and use public...
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Article 5 mins
Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods

...health advocates and other health promoting organisations recommend that items with artificial sweeteners should not be part of children’s ‘advertised diet’. This includes the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe that has developed a set of guidelines for assessing foods that should or should not be advertised to children. Why is this – isn’t...
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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...publications/how-health-care-is-funded (Accessed: 14 October 2019). McLeay, M., Radia, A. and Thomas, R. (2014) ‘Money creation in the modern economy’, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Q1. Available at: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy (Accessed: 11 October 2019). Palladino, L. and Edmans, A. (2018)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...health and medical queries; to obtain legal advice and other topics where your own or other peoples’ wellbeing might be at stake. At times like this you must be able to guarantee you are receiving the correct information. 3: LLMs make stuff up [False and true written on pavement with feet wither side] If you are using them for your work, use other, authoritative...
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