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Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...fact it cannot be combined with the standard model of particle physics are all thoroughly interesting topics. To have the time to describe them all, we would need to be accelerating near the speed of light … or in a strong gravitational field. This article was originally published on The Conversation on 11 October 2011. Read the original article there.[The Conversation]...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...physically restraining arms of a policeman at the gates of Buckingham Palace when she tried to present a petition to the king. Or how about the grainy footage of the Epsom Derby in June 1913, when Emily Wilding Davison was fatally wounded after running under the hooves of the king’s horse. But this popular protest, which became militant after the founding of the...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...physical ‘mode’ - at the oral stage, sucking or biting - and a psychological ‘modality’ - at this stage the child is dependent on others for survival and satisfaction.) The anal stage comes next where the core conflict relates to the requirement of the child to control his/her own body functions to the requests of others. According to Freud, this may lay the...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...physical response, when a person believes that they have done something wrong in surviving retrenchment when others haven’t, leaving them with a feeling of self-guilt. Many studies show that those left behind can find it difficult. They display an increase in alcohol consumption, smoking and workplace injury, and other studies show an effect on the mental health, with...
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Rough sleepers in policy and practice: chaotic and off course, or misunderstood?
Society, Politics & Law

Rough sleepers in policy and practice: chaotic and off course, or misunderstood?

...physical and mental for rough sleepers: “I remember coming here in the mornings, like half eight in the mornings when it opens, just like, you know, so relieved to just get in somewhere, and I'd get myself in the shower. Sometimes I'd just stand, you know, I'd stand under that hot shower for about ten minutes just standing there, you know, kind of recharging myself.”...
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...physical transition to demilitarise police buildings and vehicles. In 2025, police officers feel burnt out, disillusioned and undervalued. If you listen, there is a reminder that in his report on reforms, more than 25 years ago, Chris Patten pointed out that policing means more than just the police. It is about how you depoliticise policing in a place where politics can't...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...physical processes occurring within a plinian eruption column make it convenient to describe it in three parts. [Ejecta] A plinian eruption column, showing the gas thrust region, the region of convective ascent, and the umbrella cloud. In the lower part of the column, fragments are driven upwards by the force of expanding gas in the conduit. This is called the gas thrust...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...physical properties. A few minerals occur as single elements, like nuggets of gold, crystals of diamond (composed of carbon), and sulphur found in volcanoes. Most minerals though, are compounds, i.e. different combinations of different elements, just like words are various combinations of different letters. The mineral quartz (SiO2) is quite a simple word, just made up of...
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