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Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...Le Pen’s fury at the state of France. It’s difficult to look anywhere and see politics as anything other than a sea of turbulent feelings, which poses several problems for social scientists interested in making sense of contemporary social action and political life. The first is how do we know how people feel? Surveys – whether opinion polls or sociological...
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Sgwrsio am Brifysgol - podlediad am y profiad myfyrwyr go iawn
Education & Development

Sgwrsio am Brifysgol - podlediad am y profiad myfyrwyr go iawn

...le bynnag yr ydych yn cael eich podlediadau. Os hoffech wrando arno nawr, cliciwch y dolenni isod. Pennod 1: A yw’r brifysgol yn addas i mi? Mae cymaint o bethau i’w hystyried y dyddiau hyn cyn penderfynu a yw bywyd prifysgol yn addas i chi. Yn y bennod gyntaf hon rydym yn trafod ystod o faterion a fydd efallai’n eich helpu chi i wneud y penderfyniad cychwynnol...
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A reader's guide to Ulysses
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Ulysses

...mode of art, a kind of secular scripture.' T.S. Eliot: 'It is the book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape.' The novel also inspired other artists - from Kate Bush to theatre adaptations. [Statue of James Joyce in Trieste] James Joyce depicted in a Trieste statue When is Bloomsday - and what is it exactly? The ten-year quest described in...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...de dhuilleoga feileastraim is bitiúmin agus pic bheith cuimilte lena thóin ansan é a leagadh síos i measc na ngiolcach is coigeal na mban sí le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the...
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Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...modes of cryotherapy, but ice baths were traditionally the most common mode used by athletes, however increasingly whole body cryotherapy is being used. Whole body cryotherapy (WBC) is where athletes are exposed to very low temperature rooms or chambers. Cryotherapy is openly used by elite rugby players. The Wales team, for example, wereusing cryotherapy in preparation...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...mode out-of-hours could generate 145 kWhs of electricity to simply do nothing. Using CarbonIntensity.org.uk to get the real-time carbon intensity of the UK’s National Grid (250gCo2e/kWh), 145 kWhs converts to 36 kg or carbon. That’s just 10 computers: try scaling that to a few hundred or thousand. Then add in the cost of less-efficient appliances such as printers and...
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To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...le-Duc, undertook a process of restoration which was completed only in 1910. Carcassonne is now a major tourist attraction – people come to marvel at what is seen as ‘an excellent example of a walled medieval city’. Much of what people see, however, is 19th-century reconstruction – in a sense, Carcassonne is no more a medieval city than Cinderella’s castle in...
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Vertical high pressure die casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Vertical high pressure die casting

...mode. Molten metal is automatically ladled into the shot chamber, which is attached to a drive cylinder in the vertical plane. The drive cylinder is adjusted back to the vertical position and the shot chamber is raised to the lower die position. Pressure is increased to force the molten metal into the die cavity in a vertical manner. Dies are designed with large in-gates...
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