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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...article because during the referendum campaign Brexiteers tended to couch the referendum as a choice between two Unions, the British and the European. In this context, how the Welsh and Scots voters view the British state and the historical landscape it occupies, become important. Transcript Professor Roger Scully of the think tank, Wales Governance Centre, discusses the...
Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...exciting new perspectives on shamanism and forest ecologies. It seems remarkable that this was the first time Davi Kopenawa had been invited to speak and engage with academics in Europe. I am honoured to have been part of that gathering. This article was originally published on The Open University's Religious Studies blog, 'Contemporary Religion in Historic Perspective'....
Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...and tuna diet isn’t sustainable. Expanding our seafood menus could be a vital way of keeping the ocean healthy while it supplies the food we need. Pallavi Anand, Lecturer in Ocean Biogeochemistry, The Open University and Daniela Schmidt, Professor in Palaebiology, University of Bristol This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
iSpot: Your place to share nature
Nature & Environment

iSpot: Your place to share nature

...articles, courses and resources to help. Dive in to see highlights, achievements and significant milestones from over the years; plans and new developments as we chart the next phase for iSpot as a tool for biological recording, building species ID skills and learning. Look out for opportunities to contribute to the challenge of reducing ecosystem degradation and...
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...article about “the man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal” as informative as it is disturbing. Another way to turn foreign people into spectacles for the western gaze was to put actual people on display. For instance, in the collections of Heinrich Zille, an illustrator and photographer who documented the lives of Berlin’s poor in the late 19th and early 20th...
Do children exercise less in winter?
Education & Development

Do children exercise less in winter?

...by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, whose funding comes from the British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. The Millennium Cohort Study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. This article was originally published by the Cambridge University research blog...
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...in the oven was not enough to prevent the cake from being what my Austrian grandmother would have called “mürbig”, or underbaked. No plaudits from the Bake Off judges are likely to come my way should they materialise in my Midlands kitchen. In future, I shall stick to Mary Berry. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
50 years of sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

50 years of sport and fitness

...has rapidly developed since 1969. In this series of articles, we look back at the advances made in technology and sports medicine, successes of British sportswomen, world records and changes in various sports and fitness activites...Discover how sport has changed in the past 50 years Now take a free related course Study with the OU Read more on sports and risk taking...