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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...everyday world. Despite Sacks’s popularity now, he had a slow start, with his first book Migrainenot raising much interest either with his medical colleagues or the reading public. Not least, perhaps, because compared to his later works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his 1973 book Awakenings that...
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
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The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...everyday people, and that the populist leader has emerged to right this wrong. This is a narrative which Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings have made central to their own political careers (it’s the narrative that underpins Brexit, for example). But within this context, the journey to Durham immediately became a symbol of hypocrisy, undermining the clear story that the...
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...everyday life. To visit family or friends. To search for adventure and to open your mind to new cultures and experiences. To visit or revisit a place that has personal significance for you. [Mourne Mountains, Co Down, Ireland; Hiker Beside The Mourne Wall On The Slopes Of Slieve Bearnagh] A hiker beside the Mourne Wall on the slopes of Slieve Bearnagh, Co Down, Ireland....
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A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws
History & The Arts

A quiet man, hounded: One person's experience of the UK's anti-homosexuality laws

...everyday injustices suffered by LGBT people in Britain when it was still a crime to be gay. Nearly 50 years ago, in July 1967, the government voted to partly decriminalise homosexuality for men over 21-years-old. The illegality of homosexuality had ruined countless lives and careers – even of those who were not actually convicted of a crime. One of those who fell foul...
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How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?

...everyday life, for example, mentally healthy people distort reality to enhance their self-esteem and maintain beliefs about their self-agency. When faced with negative, ambiguous or unsupportive feedback, we often respond with exaggerated perceptions of control and unrealistic optimism. In some life situations – in states of delirium, bereavement, severe lack of sleep...
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Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...everyday practices is greater than heterosexual counterparts who are perhaps more inclined to take things for granted. Of course, same sex couples weren’t the only ones who were happy. The face-to-face interviews revealed that the older heterosexual couples and those who were in a second long-term relationship were often more inclined to reflect on how their...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...everyday use of ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ dying can be useful to distinguish between the types of deaths witnessed by clinicians, but as social scientists it is part of our role to urge people to reflect upon how this usage might not be unproblematic. We also hope our reflections allow for further consideration about the difficulties of translating clinical...
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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...everyday materials in modern society. Plastics are rapidly increasing every year in their uses and applications. Scientific research into plastics and their many applications are ongoing, with many thousands of papers published on the subject each year covering a range of scientific areas including biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, health, materials...
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