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Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...everyday life. For example, if you send an army to war you are consigning people to their deaths. That’s the kind of difficult choice that I think Machiavelli was referring to, and yes, sometimes you have to make choices which are way outside ordinary experience. Jon: But if you’re worried about your conscience, don’t be. Machiavelli has it covered. Tip 3 is that...
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...everyday living doesn’t usually include trips to the loo – though in my first novel I did have an explicit weeing sequence, written from the point of a man. And vomiting is relatively underexplored. Orgasm has had far more literary attention than the ungovernable heave. Which brings me back to the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Given that both Booker prize winner Richard...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...everyday lives to support healthier lives when this is needed. As a public health intervention, Ageing Well Public Talk Series has the potential to make an impact on health and social care economies via the expected reduction of preventable disease, and support the management of chronic as well as acute biomedical as well as psychosocial conditions via behaviour change....
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...everyday. Read more: Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts (Free course) Is your wash day polluting the ocean? (Article) Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping (Article) Transport A huge contributor to carbon emissions worldwide, petrol cars equate to roughly 33% of C02 emissions in the United Kingdom alone (Source). Review...
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What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...everyday. Maybe we shouldn't be throwing it all away...Many of us depend on coffee to fuel our early morning meetings, mid-afternoon slumps or all-night study sessions. These days, the words “coffee” and “fuel” are half-jokingly synonymous. More than 9m tonnes of the bean are produced annually around the world and, once we brew it, an awful lot of waste is...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...everyday… more women coming through that have the right attitude and have the right confidence,” Diana says. They are able to “stand up to their male counterparts or colleagues or peers” but “also have the right opinions, that perhaps would shock other people.” She says, in her experience, an older generation might sometimes want to “flatten these...
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Autism quiz text
Health, Sports & Psychology

Autism quiz text

...everyday situations, and may not achieve what they are capable of for this reason. 13. People with autism always prefer being alone Is the answer TRUE, FALSE or DEBATABLE? Answer... FALSE People on the autism spectrum would often like to make friends and have the company of others, though they may also have difficulties in making this happen. Hopefully you’ve learnt...
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Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?

...everyday reality of Spiritualism is much more mundane. A self-respecting Spiritualist medium is unlikely to let themselves be ‘possessed’ in a dramatic performance. Rather than being an eccentric recluse living in some windswept spooky cottage, or constantly haunted by restless souls, they quite probably live next door and work quite happily as a nurse, a...
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