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Time to Talk about Time
Miss Palomine sorts through old photographs and talks about the passage of time. This leads to a description of time and how clocks are used to tell time.
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How Light Works For Sleep
How does light work for sleep? Light has a strong influence over the timing of your circadian rhythm. Light triggers the shut down of melatonin in your brain. So we can use this to our advantage when trying to regulate sleep problems or...
All Ears English
2032 - Happy to Help! How to Volunteer Your Assistance in English
How can you show you are eager to help someone in English? Today, we share some special ways to connect when offering to help, and we talk about the human desire to reciprocate favors.
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How to Use Light Therapy
A light box can be useful for more than seasonal affective disorder. It has been recommended for use as an add-on treatment for depression. It can also help shift your body clock. This video shows you how to use a light box.
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How Does Caffeine Work as a Stimulant?
How does caffeine work as a stimulant? Caffeine is a naturally occurring substance found in plants and food substances—both organic and processed. It’s also a stimulant that works by blocking adenosine inside your cells. In this video I...
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What Do I See
Miss Palomine introduces the topic of the five senses when someone comes in and gives her a brownie. She then recites the poem, “What Do I See?” and continues the discussion about how valuable the sense of sight is. She challenges the...
The Guardian
Dementia Diaries: 'It's like trying to go through a brick wall'
Dementia Diaries is an audio diary project that captures people’s diverse experiences of living with dementia, now the leading cause of death in the UK. While the origin of the disease is still unclear and symptoms can vary greatly,...
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David Bowie remembered by two of his biggest fans
David Bowie’s death stunned the world. Musician and actor Gary Kemp, a lifelong fan, and Nicholas Pegg, author of Bowie bible The Complete David Bowie, reflect on life without the Starman as they take a tour of some of Bowie’s London...
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Social distancing isn't practical' : Owen Jones meets our coronavirus key workers
For some, lockdown has felt like an eternity, but a lot of key workers have continued to go to work through unprecedented circumstances. Owen Jones asked four workers – a postal worker, a care home worker, a cycle courier and a security...
The Guardian
Refugees in Calais: ‘house them like the Ukrainians’
After the Ukraine invasion, hundreds of people found themselves stranded in Calais as they tried to navigate the UK visa process. It put a spotlight on the city where many young refugees have been living outside all winter in harsh...
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How to See Through Fog: a portrait of a mining town in its darkest days
Queenstown, on the remote west coast of Tasmania, is known for two things: copper mining and the harsh gravel oval that is home to the local Australian rules football team. A series of deaths at the Mount Lyell mine brought operations to...
The Guardian
David Hockney's lockdown sunrise and other masterpiece dawns
David Hockney created a glorious depiction of a sunrise on his iPad in April and emailed it from his lockdown in Normandy to the Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones.
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RIP SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK's mental health crisis
One morning in June 2020, graffiti reading RIP SENI appeared emblazoned across a public artwork outside the Bethlem royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital in south London. The spray-painted letters drew attention to Olaseni Lewis, a...
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Meet and Greet: Gwendolyn the Turkey Vulture!
Introducing Gwendolyn the Turkey Vulture! Learn where she came from, why she came to live at Animal Wonders, and get to know a little bit about her.
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Chopsticks The Quaker Parrot, feat. BirdTricks!
Chopsticks the quaker parrot has been challenging to work with lately. So when Jamie and Dave from Bird Tricks come for a visit, Jessi asks for their expertise on bird training to help figure out what is going with Chopsticks and his...
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The Adderall Effect: Strategies for Minimizing the Crash
The Adderall Effect: Strategies for Minimizing the Crash
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Understanding Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
Circadian rhythm sleep disorders can account for many sleep problems. There are many people who have an irregular body clock and they just don’t know it. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders occur when there is a mismatch between the...
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The Truth About Testosterone And Depression
Testosterone deficiency is a common cause of depression in men and can often go unrecognized. As a psychiatrist, what I see is the either the depressed man who doesn’t get enough improvement with antidepressants or the man who is not...
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The Sleep-ADHD Paradox: Why Can't I Get a Good Night's Sleep?
Did you know that many people with ADHD also have sleep problems? Research is showing that the disorder itself changes your circadian rhythm. That’s what this video is about.
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Stress Versus Anxiety: How This Herb May Help
Some people will use stress and anxiety interchangeably, but stress and anxiety are not the same, there are some distinct differences between the two. Why does is matter? One reason is because there’s an herbal remedy that’s gaining a...
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Sleep Eating with Sleeping Pills - 4 Ways to Avoid
Sleep eating with sleeping pills. It's not that uncommon and we call it complex sleep behaviors. Other behaviors include sleep driving, sleep eating and sleep texting. Sleep driving is commonly associated with the sleeping medication,...
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Do Depressed People Need More Sleep? How To Do Wake Therapy
Do depressed people need to sleep more? It would seem so, but when a depressed person stays awake, their depression resolves. The problem is it’s very temporary until the person goes back to sleep. Researchers have found that you can...
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Can a Depressed Person Have Good Days? - Atypical Depression
Usually we think of someone who is moderately to severely depressed as being very sad and unresponsive to things. Maybe even zombie like. But that isn’t always how it looks. But when it does look like this, we call it having melancholic...
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Always Forgetting? It may Be a Working Memory Problem
Do you always forget where you put your keys? Or what you were going to say when someone interrupts you? It's possible that you have a working memory problem. Watch this video to learn more about how working memory works and how to tell...