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Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...De Sensu considers sight as the most important among the senses, while in De Anima he states that ‘The purpose of sight is colour’. The significance of colour as the ultimate manifestation of sight was developed further in Byzantium, where colour was associated with both earthly and heavenly powerfulness; as such it was discussed extensively in patristic and...
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Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?
Nature & Environment

Can natural infrastructure help Brazil beat its water crisis?

...de Janeiro, Brazil] The Ilha Grande, near Rio Serious water crises have plagued Brazil’s major cities in recent years.Severe pollution in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay is jeopardizing sailing and other water sports at the upcoming Olympic Games. A historicdrought from 2013 to 2015 in São Paulo dramatically slowed farm and factory production, threatening the national...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...de Prony who had been commissioned to draw up new books of tables for the French government. De Prony’s task was immense; he would need to create logarithms for all of the numbers from 1 to 10,000 – accurate to nineteen decimal places, and the sines of angles to no less than twenty-five decimal places! De Prony’s solution was to create three teams of mathematicians....
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Portales: beginners' Spanish
Languages

Portales: beginners' Spanish

...de las Artes y las Ciencias (Arts and Science Museum) in Valencia: one of the most visited attractions on the Mediterranean Coast of Spain. Public Sector Employees What public sector employees do in Spain and their reputation. Emblematic Buildings in Valencia A description of some of the most emblematic buildings in Valencia. Firstly, the barraca or thatched building,...
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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...de Bernières, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Monique Roffey. This enlightening and engaging series tackles the practicalities and pitfalls of writing fiction. It contains invaluable advice on the creation of characters, the structure of narratives and how to turn an idea into the book you’ve always wanted to write. This material forms part of The Open University course A174...
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Audio 54 mins
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...de-globalising project. ...[Scrabble words spelling out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst...
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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...
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A linguistic toolkit for health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

...De Felice and her colleague Dr Nele Pöldvere (Lund University, Sweden). They analysed 450,000 words of authentic British English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over...
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