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Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...everyday talk, people sometimes locate emotions in their stomach or their heart, rather than their head. Thirdly, emotional behaviour is contrasted with behaviour that is reasoned or considered. To describe someone as acting in a reasoned way is to imply that they have thought about what to do – they have weighed up the relevant considerations, and chosen the action...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...everyday life human activity, the world around us. Other answers are more global, such as: within people experience life, anywhere and everywhere. Reasons given for the importance of mathematics (prompt 2) often portray a more personal view of what mathematics is ‘about’. They include: its beauty and the support it gives to other disciplines it gives a different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...English courts of justice which, were it not for the operation of the Judicature Acts [1873–75], would be administered only by those courts which would be known as Courts of Equity. This, you may well say, is but a poor thing to call a definition. (Maitland, 1909, p. 1) How to deal with a lack of a concrete definition It is proposed here that you embrace equity in all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...English courses Digital technologies such as WhatsApp and other messaging apps are now deeply embedded into many people’s daily lives. Mobile conversations interweave in complex ways with offline activities, interrupting and being interrupted by what we’re doing in the real world. Phone messaging adds another layering to our already busy lifestyles, both facilitating...
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Article 5 mins
Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature
Nature & Environment

Sebastian Chuwa: environmentalist, conservationist and champion of Tanzanian nature

...English, Swahili, Kichaga (the language of the Chaga people who live on Kilimanjaro), and scientific name written on it. It may seem strange, but that vision of something so organised, beautiful and yet unusual (for the area, and the image of the margarine lids) has stuck with me for nearly 30 years. Sebastian had gained his love of plants from his father, who was a...
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Article 5 mins
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...English public health resource, All Our Health, has published a guide to promote healthy ageing. It contains tips for professionals working at the front line all the way to strategic roles. It may seem that an individual older person experiencing health inequalities is powerless to self-manage, but this is not always the case. While we should all be rightly concerned by...
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Article 5 mins
A Letter to Earth
Nature & Environment

A Letter to Earth

...English and address it directly to Earth. [Photo taken of Himalaya ] Dear Earth, We have been a part of you for eons and eons and you have nurtured many of our generations for all this time. We are conscious though that we have NOT inherited you from our ancestors but we have borrowed you from our descendants and we are deeply indebted to them for letting us live on...
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Article 10 mins
Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...English, the team reviewed a large number of potentially relevant studies (over 7000!). They identified 57 studies which had directly looked at the relationship between the built environment and loneliness. The small number of studies internationally demonstrates that this is an area which needs more research. The studies included a focus on neighbourhood design, housing...
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Article 5 mins