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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...moved on to other models, most recently the lightweight 787 Still, the original jumbo jet will always be the aircraft that made Boeing into the global leader it is today, helping bring long-distance air travel to many of us who previously could never have dreamed of it.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...So vastly different are they, the response to them must also be of an entirely different order. The question now is, do we have the politicians, the advisers, the academics and the writers brave enough to stand up and champion those new, progressive forces? We can only hope so. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Are we taking the fun out of reading?
Education & Development

Are we taking the fun out of reading?

...us to see the world through someone else’s eyes. Are we making it harder for our children to discover the joy of books, the joy of reading and the joy of learning precisely by turning literacy practices into a utilitarian duty that is all about school-readiness and learning the alphabet? This article was originally published by Language On The Move under a CC-BY licence...
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Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome

...article explores ancient medicine describes practices in Greek and Roman medicine...[The Colosseum in Rome] The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines, surgery and regulating the whole life-style in their treatment of ailments. Diet, or regimen – in the broad sense of the whole lifestyle – was the first resort. Individuals were advised on how to live in order to remain...
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OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...articles and courses. Your 100 hours of imported learning must be made up of OpenLearn courses. This is the number of imported hours of learning required if you include 50 hours from your Highers study. Each course has a Course Description page. This provides more information, including the number of hours it will take to complete, the level of study and the rating it has...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...article. Through his keen insights, Dawson contributes to an already abundant field of criticism of Dickens and his work. Where Dawson distinguishes himself is in correlating close readings of Dickens’s novels with Owen’s paleontological theories and practice. In so doing, Dawson strikes a balance between literary interpretation and historico-scientific analyses to...
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...article explores...[XXX across book ] Sexual intercourse is getting on a bit. Not only has it been boosting the human population since we emerged from the primordial swamp, it’s more than half a century since Philip Larkin noted its arrival on the cultural scene in his poem Annus Mirabilis. Until then it was, Larkin writes: A shame that started at sixteen And spread to...
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Do people need Peeple?
Digital & Computing

Do people need Peeple?

...article: The most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it. It’s been pointed out that some dating apps, such as Lulu, have very similar features. However, these dating apps only allow people to rate others who joined the same dating app. Peeple by contrast intends...
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