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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...communicator. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies … We’ve already tried it – ethyl methanesulfonate - as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table. – Dr Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner One of the panel’s...
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Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?
History & The Arts

Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?

...community took on particular force. Athenian society emphasised that one should act for the common good, but aristocratic families were still powerful in public life. They dominated political debate, formed the majority of generals, and paid for many public benefits. Athenians were constantly afraid that a charismatic individual would become too powerful, and attempt to...
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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...communicate by various means such as crying and making gestures and sounds. Over the next few years they will learn to speak in order to learn. Most people around them will help them develop speaking skills by talking to them and encouraging them as they try to express themselves. These young children do not simply copy what they have heard. For example, children may make...
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Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...community, and a way of enriching metropole and colonies alike. [EMB Canadian lumbermen] 'Canadian Lumbermen', by Frank Newbould, from the 'The Empire is Still Building' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins; displayed September-October 1930; (TNA) CO956/225 Typically, not just EMB posters but other Empire collections of the time, such as sets of cigarette cards, portrayed the...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...community facilities such as the local pub, a bicycle maintenance project, a general practitioner, an employer, a family member as well as care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are...
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Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...Community, Edinburgh, John Donald Tom M. Devine (2018) The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, London, Allen Lane/Penguin Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell (2019) The Lowland Clearances: Scotland’s Silent Revolution 1760–1830, Edinburgh, Birlinn. John Gray Centre, ‘A brief history of Emigration and Immigration in Scotland: Research Guide 2’...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...communication and a whole lot else besides. History brings enormous benefits at all levels – personal, local, national and international. The first thing that any doctor asks when he or she sees a new patient is for their medical record. Family history, helped enormously by new technology, is a boom activity and I know some very sane people who have become totally...
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...communities...[The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe.] Figure 1 The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe. Collins Barracks, Dublin (2023). OSBHM project photograph. The history of army barracks in Ireland...
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