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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...care first-hand (from an insider perspective), they are unlikely to know and properly understand the role and responsibilities and will draw from their (inaccurate) schema (from an outsider perspective). This means that they use false stereotypes to inform perceptions and decision-making. This cycle is perpetuated through false stereotypes of nursing seen in the media, by...
The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...care of regular trip or bump hazards. Sore muscles and joints – as either super active and needing to move a lot or being stuck in an awkward position for hours as I’ve not recognised the passage of time, my muscles and joints are rarely in the ‘ergonomic’ position we’re supposed to adopt in the workplace. Daily stretching helps, but years of physical therapy...
Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...2013) ‘Social Relationships and Depression: Ten-Year Follow-Up from a Nationally Representative Study.’ PloS one 8, 4, e62396. South, J., Higgins, T., Woodall, J., and White, S. (2008) ‘Can social prescribing provide the missing link?.’ Primary Health Care Research and Development 9, 4, 310-318. More on friendships and wellbeing Try a free course on mental health...
When is the best time to water during a heatwave?
Nature & Environment

When is the best time to water during a heatwave?

...care not to cause the soil surface to form a hard pan. A bit of mulch (wood chips or compost) can protect the soil and keep moisture in – but beware of slugs. Beware of over watering Plants can have too much of a good thing – and while the surface might be dry, the soil 15-20cm down, might not be. Most plants will have a greater root depth so could well be pulling up...
Who is Donald Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Donald Trump?

...cared not a whit what others said.” The specific choice of musical genre is the key here. Metal, Lefsetz writes, is the music most despised and overlooked by the liberal elite, even though it is adored by its fans: “The reason metal triumphed was because it was the other, it channelled the audience’s anger, it was for all those closed out of the mainstream, and it...
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...careful about what genre I’m investing in because that may have run dry. My job is where culture meets commerce and I’ve got to be on both sides. Publishing is not a publicly funded industry so it has no value to society other than its commercial success, so I don’t believe publishers who… who… who believe they’re doing things for the public good when...
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...care at all about the task and just want to get it over as soon as possible. Students and teaching staff who try to work it out and find a pattern always do worst,” he says. “It’s impossible in the time given to decipher the rules of the language and make sense of what’s being said to you. But your brain is primed to work it out subconsciously. That’s why, if...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children often have part-time evening, weekend or holiday jobs of their own. They are all likely to spend some time on work-experience programmes. Their parents will...