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Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15
Digital & Computing

Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15

Wikipedia has grown into the world's go-to source for information. This raises more problems than just a few missing citations...As Wikipedia turns 15, volunteer editors worldwide will be celebrating with themed cakes and edit-a-thons aimed at filling holes in poorly covered topics. It’s remarkable that a user-editable encyclopedia project that allows anyone to edit...
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Free online resources for Ukrainians settling in the UK and Ireland
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Free online resources for Ukrainians settling in the UK and Ireland

...resources from The Open University...All of the content listed below is free to use, including all of our OpenLearn courses. Every course offers a free statement of participation on completion (which you can download as a PDF) and some courses give you the opportunity to earn a free digital badge, which you can display and share with potential employers. In addition to...
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Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...resources...This is an introduction to some of the resources which are available online and in print. It is by no means an exhaustive list: there is more material online (and elsewhere) than we have included here. The material had been divided into sections. The first section here (a. Starting points) identifies two online collections which provide well-structured...
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Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...human-animal interactions more generally. Certainly in some exceptional circumstances I can now appreciate how it might be possible for a human child to be cared for by a non-human surrogate. [A female wolf in the snow] Shall I be mother? In Kipling’s original The Jungle Book, published in 1894, the “man-cub” Mowgli is taken in by a wolf pack after he is separated...
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Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies

...human in (and sometimes outside!) a body…...What is it that makes us human? In the film The Man With Two Brains, brain surgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (played by Steve Martin) falls in love with a brain in a glass jar. Of course, what he’s actually fallen in love with is the spirit of the person once attached to a body in which that brain was living. Without giving away...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
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Humans better at rapid change than we think

...humans are capable of radically altering the world around us, and offers hope in the face of climate change...[Black sky, extremely powerful lightning over a city] Human beings often forget that we have an invaluable ability, says a study by two British social scientists: we can change the world around us, and our treatment of it, more quickly and more significantly than...
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How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...human body. Therefore, T and B lymphocytes can specifically recognise foreign material, such as a viral particle, because of its unique antigens. Let us look now at how this applies to an acute virus infection such as SARS-CoV-2. In order to infect a cell, a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle must first bind to a specific protein called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2),...
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