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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...Law of the instrument’ highlights an essential aspect of problem-solving. If there are insufficient tools available to solve problems, this shapes how problems are perceived and how much flexibility there is in solving them. Psychological flexibility is a 'Swiss army knife' concept in psychology that has received a great deal of attention in recent years as uncertainty...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...laws, taxes and an inadequate educational system have all been cited as reasons for Germany’s chemical industry outstripping that of Britain. By 1913, Germany was exporting about 135 000 tonnes of dyes compared to Britain’s 5 000 tonnes. At the outbreak of the First World War, the only khaki dye available for British army uniforms was manufactured in Germany and had...
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...law against her wearing men’s clothing decently, if she did not steal it. After she had two more convictions, I fitted her out with the clothes she wanted, and paid her fare to South Wales. she got work in a night shift, and lay on her back in a coal-pit hewing coal. This type of searching was covered in the research guide, Queering Glamorgan, which despite its title...
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Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars

...law that would put an end to gender-based discrimination, the Sex Discrimination Act was eventually passed in 1975. References, Sources and Further Reading Hayward, V. (2018) ‘The History of Women in Rail’ (Long Read, 8 March). Available at: https://on-trac.co.uk/the-history-of-women-in-rail/ History Wardrobe (2014) ‘Railway women in WWI’ (5 February). Available...
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Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle

...law yn dal gafael yn ei gilydd.] Ar sail canfyddiadau ein harolwg, rydym yn gwneud nifer o argymhellion i weithleoedd ar gyfer cynnig gwell cefnogaeth i'r rhai sy'n profi unrhyw fath o feichiogrwydd sy'n dod i ben (gan gynnwys erthyliad a chamesgor). Mae'r rhain yn cynnwys: Mae angen hyfforddiant ac addysg i godi ymwybyddiaeth ar gyfer gweithwyr, rheolwyr llinell a...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...laws apply across the universe. I worry that starting out in space with the same attitudes that have proven pragmatically problematic on Earth will set us up for recreating the same flawed systems that also harm and threaten ourselves. If the goal is to eventually sustain civilisation and life across deep time by spreading in space, then we need to get really good at...
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Laws and Code of Rites. Paris: Pantanos Classics. Osuloga, D. (2021) Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Pan Publishing. Rahn, O. (2006) Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome. Vermouth: Inner Traditions Publishers. Runican, S (1987) A History of the Crusade. London: Penguin Publishers. Simmons, A....
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...law courts, popular ballads, erotica and travel writing had a persistent tendency to ascribe lesbianism to ‘other’ nations. This is certainly clear from the writings of seventeenth-century poets (including Alexander Pope) and prose writers, who often drew on Ovid’s epistles to suggest that the Greek poet Sappho was the ‘inventor’ of lesbian sex. Further than...
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