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The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...c. 2007 p. 26 Professor Watson is working on a book called The Author’s Effects: A Poetics of the Writer’s House Museum. Why do people want to visit writers' homes? Transcript – expand to see more Nicola Watson: Do you ever go to a writer’s house in search of the secret life of a book you love? I do, and I’ve been thinking and writing about the history and the...
How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...C-Suite executives you would expect (CIO, CTO, CSO), the technical components that would be required (the state data center, state agency Information Security Officers or ISOs, service providers and vendors) and the Michigan public safety agencies (Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division, the state fusion center, the MI-ISAC, and Michigan...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...C. (2016). Informal care and poverty in the UK Retrieved 24 January 2020 Dixon, J., King, D. and Knapp, M. (2019) ‘Advance care planning in England: Is there an association with place of death? Secondary analysis of data from the National Survey of Bereaved People’, BMJ Supportive, and Palliative Care. BMJ Publishing Group, pp. 316–325. doi:
Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...C. (2019) ‘“Um, I was getting bullied at school because I didn’t believe in god”: one family’s experience of autism, school and home education’, International journal of inclusive education, pp.1–14. DOI:10.1080/13603116.2019.1588926 Gillie, S. (2022) ‘Family Transitions and Home Education: Circumstances, Processes and Practices’, EdD thesis The Open...
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...C’ (commitment) is choosing (being active) to move in the direction of your values: choosing behaviours that reflect the things that matter the most to you, for the way you want to live and work. See below for more on values and help with identifying these. Taking Action Rather than therapy, it can be useful to think of the ‘T’ as ‘taking action’, so overall,...
Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...c. 427–347 bce) this tradition is called into question. Plato’s discussion raises some broader issues about the nature of courage and how it relates to moral knowledge or understanding. Like most of Plato’s works, Laches is written as a dialogue between a small number of characters. Plato’s dialogues are set in the recent past, and most of the characters are real...
Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery
Science, Maths & Technology

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

...C). However, before getting too excited about the prospect of finding Ewoks, it should be noted that the exomoon (formally named as Kepler-1625b-i) has a radius of around four times that of the Earth and a mass of around 16 times that of our planet, so is in fact similar in size and mass to the planet Neptune. It is therefore unlikely to have a solid surface and is most...
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...Accessed: 1 March 2024). Max-Neef, M., Elizalde, A. & Hopenhayn, M. (1989) ‘Human scale development’, Development Dialogue, 1989: 1. Available at: http://www.daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/uploads/1989/05/89_1.pdf (Accessed: 28 February 2024). Steele, C. 2020. Sitopia: How food can save the world. London: Chatto and Windus....