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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...2°C. In comments made during the build-up to the Milano-Cortina games IOC President Kirsty Coventry confirmed that the IOC are considering moving the Winter Olympic Games forward to January as a means of reducing the challenges associated with warming climates and the need to mitigate these challenges by using technologies like artificial snowmaking. [An image of a...
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Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...institutional structural system used to address equality and diversity. Challenge 2: Inequitable learning attainment [Student graduating wearing academic dress] Ethnicity is contributing to the widening gap in learning attainment as is evident in the recent statistical report by the Universities UK (2019). The question is if ethnicity is a contributing factor to the inequitable learning outcomes then how can ethnicity be ......
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...2 (1984), and the film and TV series Fame (1980–4). In 1990 what is now regarded as the most prestigious breaking competition, Battle of the Year, started. The development of a breaking competition is significant because competition requires a set of written rules that all the competitors agree to compete within as well as an organisation to organise it. This is an...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...2. Ode to a Black Man (1980) – Written as a celebration of his Black heroes, Lynott namechecks Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, among others. The song also hints at the challenges of growing up in a town where ‘people could never understand a Black man’. 3. Black Boys on the Corner (1972) – Written to confront ‘the prejudices and stereotypes...
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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...29 January 2025, is ‘the Year of the Snake’ (蛇年 shé nián). It is sometimes poetically referred to as the ‘Year of the Small Dragon’ (小龙年xiǎo lóng nián) in Chinese culture. This nickname reflects the symbolic similarities between snakes and dragons, as both creatures are serpentine in shape and hold significant cultural meaning. The Year of the Snake...
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...2. This patient has provided me with consent, which I have documented in her notes, to share a picture of this (the image below is a similar example of the case mentioned. The original photo could not be used due to copyright issues) in the hope that someone from elsewhere in the UK has experience of a similar ulcer and has a suggestion of any alternative dressings that...
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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...2 study in Politics...Economics explains discrimination in the labour market: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the main features of the core neoclassical microeconomic theory give examples of key ideas, theories and debates in microeconomic theory illustrate a variety of applied economic theories and models to analyse...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...2 codebreakers) and got our hands dirty sanding and painting benches, digging a path and gardening. You can find out more about volunteering in this badged free course, Introducing the Voluntary Sector. Like most of the UK, the OpenLearn team are BIG fans of The Great British Bake Off and we have an interactive on the language and culture of baking throughout Europe....
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