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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...Central Milton Keynes and survived for a few years as the centrepiece of the Intu shopping centre extension. For a few years, it even boasted its own subcultural tribe, known locally as the Treebos, a loose collection of punks and goths who made it their base. Even then it was becoming an excruciatingly slow victim of poorly designed commercial drainage. Together, the...
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Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging

...centrally placed workpiece. Revolving around the rotor is a cage holding loosely rotating rollers. As the cage rotates, the rollers impact on the anvils, which effectively hammer the stationary workpiece into the required form. GFM is used to reduce the diameter of rods, tubes or pipes...GFM rotary former [Diagram to demonstrate 'Rotary forging, General forging machine...
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Supporting student-led research
Education & Development

Supporting student-led research

...central to the Open University’s Children’s Research Centre (CRC). The fold out key provides a series of activities targeted to address key issues and stages within the research process. The values underpinning quality research refer to the researcher being objective, critical and ethical. Be objective: Systematically follow a step-by-step scientific procedure to...
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What is the Neurodiversity Hub?
Education & Development

What is the Neurodiversity Hub?

...central aims of The Open University is to be open to people. Differences in how we think and function in the world can make access to education harder. This is one of the reasons we have developed this hub of resources to help you understand more about the differences in how people think and better understand the impact this has upon their lives. If you are neurodivergent...
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Antigone: List of Characters
History & The Arts

Antigone: List of Characters

...central Greece. He is famous in Greek myth for unknowingly killing his father (Laius) and marrying his mother (Jocasta). Oedipus dies before the action of Sophocles’ play Antigone begins, but his memory and cursed existence loom over everything that happens to his descendants. Creon is the brother of the dead queen Jocasta (the wife and mother of Oedipus). He is fierce...
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Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out
Money & Business

Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out

...central to a Nike advertising campaign. Finding the latest nonconformity to be monetised can even be a job. Novelist William Gibson, an acute observer of contemporary capitalism, created a trilogy of books around a “coolhunter” who identified what trends would move from the inner cities to provincial high streets. As Gibson knows, punk in particular sells: t-shirts,...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...central bank to put the money into accounts at private-sector banks, whose lending creates the rest of the money the economy needs. [Cash cascading] Magical Modern Money This doesn’t mean that governments can spend with no constraint, or that voters and backbenchers can safely sleep through the Chancellor’s annual Budget. If they spend much more than they take in tax,...
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Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...central to all the proposals and not just some. So, whilst there are some elements of greening within Boris Johnson’s New Deal announcement, the focus was clearly on economic growth, using Keynesian economic theory, over and above the environmental and social opportunities. This raises questions as to just how ‘green’ any infrastructure based New Deal can be if...
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