What gives a task meaning?
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Work cannot be meaningful if it not only fails to help others but actually harms them.
Adding water to the mash vat as part of the brewing process: from left to right, Adrian Warrell (historic brewer), Charlie Taverner (postdoctoral researcher) and Marc Meltonville (head brewer) and Jamie Comer from Storylab at Anglia Ruskin University.
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At Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin masons received up to 15 pints a day as payment.
Don’t take it personally.
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The political thought of Hannah Arendt reminds us that we are more than our successes and failures.
Israeli tanks wait at a staging post on the border with the Gaza Strip, March 11 2024.
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A major ground assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip during one of Islam’s most important months could result in a major escalation of violence.
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Rather than helping the families in greatest need, the policy punishes them.
Jane Harris in her studio in France, where she remained, far from London’s fashionable art scene.
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Jane Harris eschewed the fashionable 1990s London art scene and retreated to rural France where she experimented quietly with shape and colour.
The number of lawsuits related to climate justice is increasing.
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As new climate-related cases are brought to court, our expert outlines key aspects that could change the legal landscape.
The King David by Matthias Stomer (circa 1633-1639).
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Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
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Being rightwing involves specific beliefs about the world but is also linked to our genes and environment.
The Instapoet Rupi Kaur on her book tour.
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Literary critics and scholars need to take poetry that originated on social media more seriously.
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Studies have struggled to capture how pesticides affect bees outside of a lab.
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Your child may have classmates who have experienced potentially traumatic events fleeing their home country.
Detail from The Book of Kells, folio 291v.
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The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.
Judges arrive for the hearing of the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 2024.
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The crime of genocide was first established in law by a Polish Jew who had fled the Nazis and wanted to hold them to account for the Holocaust.
Neptune Baths in Romania.
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Dark tourism allows people to understand tragic events, experience a catharsis of emotions related to the deaths at a site and it can help people heal from collective trauma.
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Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’
Central banks could be doing more to help green industries.
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A focus on economic stability in the near-term makes the climate crisis worse in the long-term.
AI could take us beyond the concept of smart cities, telling us how and why things happen in urban settings.
Irish folk music group, Lankum.
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A new generation of Irish musicians is using music not just as entertainment but as a powerful tool for social commentary.
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Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?