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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...world might take us...Introduction In an (in)famous postscript, Gilles Deleuze traces the emergence of a society of control, whose passive danger is jamming, and whose active danger lies in piracy and viruses. Media jamming and piracy, hacktivism and viruses are all rampant today: the internet is their natural breeding ground, to the point of becoming trivial occurrences...
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Ever Wondered About... Hamburgers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Hamburgers?

...World Fair. McDonald’s began as a hot-dog stand founded by two brothers in 1937. Salesman Ray Kroc saw massive potential in their production line methods of preparing food, and heralded a massive expansion partly thanks to the baby boomers of the 1960s. The first British McDonald’s — and 3,000th worldwide — opened in Woolwich in 1974. Science Choosing a good piece...
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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...world issues and problem-solving skills, which are highly valued by employers. Practice and policy are central to postgraduate study and will encourage you to think critically about how to apply your learning to your own context. [A word cloud from some students when studying the Masters in Education programme.] Keywords students identified when thinking about their...
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Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...world can make a difference. Discover more about the wider issue of sustainability in our interactive Sustainability Hub, featuring more articles plus videos, interactives and free courses on the subject. And you can find even more free content from across the wider subject area of Nature & the Environment on OpenLearn. Previous articles... More free courses......
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175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...world. In 2022 the EIS celebrated the power of our women members in making us 175 years strong. [Banner in purple, yellow and red showing 175 years strong, the anniversary of the EIS] As part of International Women's Day 2022, the EIS launched the first in a series of posters looking at our history, and the fight for women’s equality. [Eis poster, showing history of EIS...
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The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...world of learning - you can explore the types of topics you want to study for now and for the future. By studying this module I’d be able to go on an exciting journey exploring the Arts and what it means to be creative, and how that sense of creativity can be used to teach, solve problems, and be used more widely in areas perhaps not always considered. The courses I...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...United Nations University, the world produced 42 million tonnes of e-waste in 2014, with Asia accounting for 16 million tonnes. Currently e-waste is dumped in landfills, incinerated or treated with chemicals to recover valuable materials, but these are not regarded as environment-friendly processes. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...McInally's PhD journey, she stumbled across the song Aspects by Paul Weller. The song is fitting for IPA (a branch of phenomenology seeking to capture the experiences of participants) and how we try to make sense of our life and our world. Thank you for listening and please look out for the dissemination of our work within peer publications and at cancer conferences....
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