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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...systems of interdependence. It also reveals the ongoing challenges of uneven development. While offering a useful way of exploring the issues facing the West of Ireland, the concepts of uniqueness and interdependence of place can also be applied beyond rural Ireland, with potential for explaining aspects of the geography of multiple locations around the world. Explore the...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...a gift of the gods thus increasing the importance of its presence in ritual events. In modern times scientists will travel the globe in order to recover meteorites as their scientific analysis provides essential information about the formation history of the solar system but clearly in some instances meteorites are also immensely valued as symbolic and sacred objects....
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What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...systems and procedures that discriminate. It means allowing a level of empowerment, in terms of allowing people accountability and responsibility to make the organisation work. And it means finding innovative ways of working that allow people to give of their best whilst actually meeting other kinds of responsibilities that they have other than work." Will Hutton,...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...system using a series of vertical hangers. These hangers are also in tension. The bridge should be designed so that the degradation of any one tension element of the structure doesn’t immediately lead to collapse. Nowadays, suspension bridges use cables spun from many individual wires but, in fact, the suspension chains in the Hi Carpenter and Silver bridges were formed...
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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...system' and 'peer pressure' as reasons to permit purchases of which they claimed to disapprove in principle. Ideas about 'good parenting' and 'healthy child development', moreover, suggested that parents needed gradually to cede responsibilities to children as they grew up; and for the most part, parents did this in relation to clothes and personal care. That is, it was...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...systems, which allow an infinite number of words to be written from finite means (the 26 letters of the English alphabet, for example), there are a limited number of emoji ‘words’. This means that if you want to express anything that falls outside the current range, you need to adapt or combine the resources available to you in the best way you can. It’s this that...
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Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
Digital & Computing

Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?

...system, which makes it more difficult for the clients to relocate their DNS servers. One must also bear in mind that the top-level domain .CN is under the management of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) which is responsible for issuing security certificates to Internet service providers. Last year, Google and Mozilla found out that CNNIC had issued...
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A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help save the lives of people urgently waiting for transplants. It’s still important to confirm that family members, next of kin and/or appointed trusted individuals will continue to be consulted and asked to confirm last known wishes. Those people closest to the individual (such...
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