Yeah. I’d argue nurses are often underappreciated and likely underpaid for the work they do. Often they also notice a lot of illnesses or changes in condition earlier than doctors, and that can be fairly accurate from medical experience or studying.
That said there is a reason doctor and nurse are different names and separate jobs. Maybe we should be looking more at why there is a lack of them rather than trying to find substitutes.
This is, afaik, a British vs American thing. In British English (I think, I live here and confuse this all the time due to the mixing of accents everywhere) group/collective nouns are treated as plural.
Examples: The press were on the scene. Ferrari were (in case of the F1 team) hopeful before the start of the season. The herd of bison were running.
Data is the really annoying one. “The data shows” vs “the data show” is a pain.
There’s a bit of a counterpoint to that: spaced/distributed learning contributes to long term memory encoding. Revisit something a week or two later and a year down the line you’ll remember it more than if you did it the next day.
So depends on your goals a bit. That said, if you can, don’t leave stuff last minute because stress is definitely not good for memory if nothing else.
I’m seeing this post a bit late, but I feel like I have to weigh in slightly, though it’s not my research area.
Note that my information extends more to academic studying, don’t know if it’s quite as true for learning more physical skills.
The main concept for learning is deeper learning. Which basically just means actually using your brain to think about the material. Things like connecting it to other ideas, pondering different implications, that sort of thing.
The reason flashcards work is because you think about what questions you could ask about the material. The reason you write by hand vs type is because it’s slower and you have to think about what’s more important or how you’d summarise the information.
I believe reading aloud typically works because it forces you to be slower and more deliberate, giving you time to actually process what you’re reading.
That said what you’ve written is helpful and mostly correct, I’m just not so certain about the framing. It could mislead some people into just rewriting notes while reading them out, for example, which is inefficient and not very helpful for learning.
A very easy-to-read source with practical tips:
Also as a final tip, my favourite exam prep technique: do a past paper without having looked at any notes or done any prep. Answer as much as you can just thinking about what you remember. Then go through with notes. It primes your brain for processing and storing the information.
I find it funny that we see:
Two supernaturally resilient and strong murderous humans (Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees)
Two non/metaphysical entities (Freddy Krueger and Pennywise)
… and Ghostface who is a normal human, regardless of which version.
Ah yes, the £166k out of £320m for road upgrades is the issue. Nah, fuck you. If we “have to” displace wildlife we might as well take some fucking responsibility. I can see a Reform member might not understand that concept.
And let’s not pretend they’d actually spend it on social care, education, or whatever else they want to point towards.
Not sure why this is worth entertaining with a news article.
Awful. Especially the stats about GPs not providing proper care, and trans people not wanting to go to A&E out of fear of discrimination.
And to be fair I do know people who have/are coming to terms with being trans but not willing to approach their GP.
Recently seeing a (very feminine) trans woman having to use the men’s bathroom was also just an upsetting reminder of the legal and political state of things. It’s very understandable that they’re worried.
The lack of empathy towards trans people is staggering. Honestly, towards people in general too.
It’s right there in the article, first paragraph:
Being overweight or obese causes hormonal changes, which accelerate children’s development. Obese children grow faster, so they tend to be taller than their healthy-weight peers. But obese children have a greater risk of disease in later life, including diabetes and heart disease.
Without further research on my end what this means to me is “poor children are more likely to be obese and reach their, presumably shorter, adult height earlier in their childhood”.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "Weight loss drugs can be a real game changer for those who need them. I’m determined that access should be based on need, not ability to pay.
What a novel idea. I wonder if this could be applied to other drugs and treatments. I don’t know, something else that maybe has to do with not being in the right body for you. Or maybe mental health conditions.
This currently benefitting one company also really doesn’t help me not be cynical.
Not OP, but I’ll answer from my own perspective. Note that Discord terminology can be a bit weird, since a server is just a unique shared group space, but hopefully makes sense.
So you can:
And key thing is: all very easy to get started with, whether you’re just wanting to join a server, or start an entire community.
Big deal for my uses currently is voice chat and screen share in one place, while still being able to organise stuff into separate channels, pin messages in them, etc.
I think right now if I had to replace it, assuming I could get the people I interact with off (which is either 20 or 1500 people, depending on how much I’d want to carry with me), it’d have to be a mix of Matrix/Stoat and probably Steam’s built-in features. Maybe a classic forum. That is, if I wanted to have all the features I use. I could do with less, but it’s frustrating.
I think the alternatives will get there eventually, self-hosted even, but self-hosting also has a hardware cost.
That said, I really don’t know why software stuff was ever moved on discord. My uses are gaming and university community-related.
It sounds like they asked about specific parties being banned. 16% even said Labour…
Without seeing the full survey it’s hard to gauge, but seems like it might’ve been odd phrasing.
Disregarding that, I think I agree with the majority here. Reform are, sadly, a legitimate political party in the UK, who even have seats in Parliament. I don’t feel we should be targeting individual political parties with freedom of speech restrictions, at least not on a national level. Students and staff getting their universities to bar them would be fine. Perhaps an odd distinction, but I think it’s an important one.
“not a British citizen” sounds like it includes people with indefinite leave to remain/any level of settled status. Meaning people who have lived here a long time, and were not here illegally at any point. I personally don’t care about the last point, and I think we should support refugees too, but that’s where the negative connotations will come from. But regardless: it sounds like this will include people who could be citizens (perhaps if it didn’t cost 1.7k).
So really, does this say anything?