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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...German of Laun, called The Incognito. It was a very lively and pleasant paper ; but as to the strict fidelity of the translation I might have had considerable doubts. He could not go about this sort of work without improving all he touched. In November he was engaged upon a translation of Walladmor, which some Curll of Germany advertised as the translation of a suppressed...
Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande issued a joint statement in defense of Trump’s action, and the leaders of countries as diverse as Japan, Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Italy and Denmark have all supported it. According to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Chinese President Xi Jinping also did not condemn the strikes and...
Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...courses and qualifications. What is the impact of climate risk on financial sector stability? Will countries facing the greatest climate risks also face the steepest rise in cost of public borrowing? Trailer Watch the trailer below for an OU Economics seminar on climate change: Transcript. Learning outcomes After exploring the seminar material, you will be able to discuss...
Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...you know that Scotland has strong ties with gold mining? Discover the locations where the precious metal is found..._Find out more about The Open University's Environment courses and qualifications. _ Click on the icons below to find out where and when Scotland had its own goldrush, plus what has been made with Scottish gold and what the mining industry has left behind....
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...German bands Neu!, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. Song form fractures on Low: verses lose choruses; catchy lines start then peter out into uneasy silence. The whole of side 2 is a sequence of abstract instrumentals – itchy guitar lines and synthesizers fidget over troubled, would-be soothing xylophones. This was a route to modern classical music as it mimics the...
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...German Pavilion in Barcelona. Its foundation marks the determination of Modernist architects to promote and finesse their theories. For nearly thirty years the great questions of urban living, space, and belonging were discussed by CIAM members. The documents they produced, and the conclusions they reached, had a tremendous influence on the shape of cities and towns the...
What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
History & The Arts

What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?

...German action.” Says Professor John Oxford, a virologist and expert on influenza. He believes the outbreak of flu it began in the Army camps on the Western Front; the biggest one being Etaples. “They had everything there that we now know could engender a new virus, a new bird virus to appear. And it was a bird virus, it was overflown by migrating ducks and geese, and...
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...German philosopher, Hegel, stated that knowledge proceeds through conversation. Yet in the face of the impact of Brexit on the whole of Ireland as the only story in town, does economics lack these two basic elements to create knowledge? Part of the answer lies in the academic discipline’s desperate attempt to be viewed as a science by reducing its methods to that of...