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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...changes in Europe. The fall of communism in the late 1980s, so vividly represented by the crumbling Berlin Wall, ushered the Eastern and Central European countries into an era of democracy and brought with it the capitalist values which started to replace the socialist principles of the previous regime. One of the consequences of this political move was the opportunity...
Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...changes. The impact that the invention of photography had on fine art is a useful analogy here. Pictorial creativity didn’t cease in the mid-19th century when Fox Talbot and Daguerre pioneered photography. But it did change – and change in radical ways. The second assumption that underpins the argument is that because machines can do something, there’s no point in...
Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...changes led to its relatively recent closure? In it's heyday in the 1970s, Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a member of the hospital's nursing staff. In the tracks on this album, he...
Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest
Languages

Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest

...changed on a number of occasions. The final nail in the coffin for language landscape variety at Eurovision came in 1999, when the rules were changed so that countries could compete in any language they wished. Since then every winner, with the exception of Serbia in 2007, has been sung in English. Of the 42 songs that entered the competition this year, 35 are in English...
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...changing political context in Scotland – as well as in the UK. ...[The front cover of Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation] Poverty in Scotland 2016 explores different aspects of poverty and disadvantage in Scotland in the context of the rapidly changing political context in Scotland – as well as in the UK. Published in advance of the May 2016 Scottish...
Why does it matter that the Sun's core rotates faster than the surface?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why does it matter that the Sun's core rotates faster than the surface?

...changes the way I think about the world and our place in the universe. Many dinosaurs were covered in feathers; there’s a planet in the habitable zone around the nearest star in the night sky; the universe is expanding faster and faster but no one yet knows why. Now there’s a genuinely awe-inspiring and amazing discovery that really has changed the way I think about...
May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
Languages

May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...changes in the original French version may have been made to help the voice actors who dubbed the film: C3-PO became Z-6PO, which sounds closer to the English name and therefore easier to dub when the original actors’ refer to him (the lip movements for the French number six are much closer to three than trois). Similarly, R2-D2 became D2-R2 (the original combination of...
How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...changes over time and place, migrants' resourcefulness as well as societal factors hindering or helping them to make use of their resources can help us to understand the limitations, opportunities and also setbacks migrants experience when they seek social mobility in the new country. Many people assume that migration follows a linear route, where settlement is followed...