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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...account measurements such as the numbers of church attendance, buildings and clergy. The second picture shows global pop music icons the Beatles. In 1966, one of their songwriters, John Lennon, had famously said in an Evening Standard interview: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more...
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...account the fact that literacy is more than a set of skills. Literacy must also be viewed as being grounded in wider cultural, social and political contexts. Historically, educationalists focused on reading and writing instruction rather than teaching literacy. Literacy was not usually associated with skills, and describing a person as being ‘literate’ referred to...
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...account the natural processes and possibilities of flood management, offering more effective techniques and more realistic goals than relying just on projects to keep water out. Reconnecting with traditional flood plains may be the best way to ensure that river flooding is managed, but it is problematic for households, insurers and government if there are properties built...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...accountancy firm, but that job isn’t really going anywhere. What I would like to do is to work in marketing. My goal is to get a marketing job within the motorsports industry. I’m not very confident with computers. I’m OK and I can do what I have to but it’s all moving on so quickly. Sometimes I feel I can’t keep up. And Sam and Isabel, they’re my children, I...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...accountability, recognition of common interests as the basis for relationships among diverse communities’ (Mohanty, 2003: 7). Solidarity, then, is both a motivation for social action and ‘the hoped-for outcome of this form of action’ (Bassel and Emejulu 2014:133). Solidarity means building communities of action across differences, including those of migrant and...
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...account in the price of carbon. Although it would be up to the private sector to provide the investment and meet the liabilities of decommissioning and waste disposal, the regulatory and planning requirements would be reduced. In any case, scale economies using new, more efficient reactor systems are bringing down the costs of construction, financing, operating and...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...account at a much earlier stage, thereby reducing this liability. The fact is that optimising purely for potency in an isolated protein assay has not necessarily resulted in the most effective drugs. Compounds with high lipophilicity can bind strongly to many protein active sites since most proteins have multiple regions with high lipophilicity. One effect is to reduce...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...account for phenomena (e.g. aspects of human behaviour), in particular by using numbers (such as the number or proportion of people who engage in exercise regularly). They break down or separate behaviour into variables or factors that can be measured (for instance, by clearly defining regular exercise as ‘150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise in bouts of 10...