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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...profile athletes gaining unparalleled freedom and influence. Football player Megan Rapinoe expressed her support for LGBT+ rights, while NBA star Steve Nash spoke out against the Iraq War. Following the New England Patriots' Super Bowl victory in 2017, several team members declined President Trump’s customary invitation to the White House, and tennis star Venus Williams...
Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...the recruitment and development of athletes’, Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis, Vol.17. Williams, H. (2011) ‘My secret life: Victoria Pendleton, Olympic cyclist, 30’, The Independent, 13 December [Online]. Available at www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-victoria-pendleton-olympic-cyclist-30-2188802.html (Accessed 13 December 2013)....
Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...style mass shootings, targeting of crowds with fast-moving vehicles, as well as low-tech, difficult-to-defend knife attacks. Consequently, traditional counter-terrorism approaches – the construction of defensive cordons to protect valuable and vulnerable assets – are seen as largely inadequate. Our defences have had to be rethought. Terror groups are adopting...
Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...style, or retention of local craft skills geared to modern tourism or new markets. Moreover, what happens in particular places also has an effect on the wider system. Not only does the existing character of an area influence the ways in which general social processes operate in and affect that local area - the outcome of that interaction can also affect the way those...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...style assessments had to be registered with the exam centre. EHE students in this study reported that their biggest concerns were that traditional school teachers would not understand or recognise their individual approaches and preferences to learning and setting their own work schedules. My research findings were based on interviews with 12 young people aged between...
Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...style of a learned judge. A political activist from his student days onwards he also showed a keen interest in music, especially jazz. The socialist musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster Joe Solo who helped to establish ‘We shall overcome’, a response by musicians to the misery caused by the government’s austerity programme recalled Peter as ‘a committed...
Building a crystal radio set
Science, Maths & Technology

Building a crystal radio set

...style headphones (usually 32+32 Ohms) connected through a transformer (e.g. type LT700) to raise the impedance. Low impedance headphones will ‘load’ the tuned circuit excessively. Look for headphones with a high sensitivity figure, for example 115 decibels - a higher number indicates higher sensitivity; CPC AV03626 106 decibel headphones work well. Be aware that a...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...styling himself on Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump has deliberately aligned himself with a vision of America that privileges white experience over all others. The rioters in DC thought nothing of filming themselves illegally entering and damaging the Capitol building, exposing their identities and giving interviews to the mainstream press. Why? It literally did not occur to...