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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy

...family has their own recipe for this sweet exotically scented cake, traditionally made a few days before Easter to allow the flavours to merge. Image: Francesca under Creative Commons license Le sfogliatelle napoletane Sfogliatelle literally means leaves or layers. This delicious speciality from Naples is a little pastry parcel filled with ricotta, semolina and candied...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...family groups of two parents with chicks and adolescents, coalescing into larger tribes. [Turkey close-up] When it rains, wild turkeys go about their business, pecking at food – I’ve yet to see one raise it’s mouth and drown. And they have feelings. My daughter and I once watched as 4 turkeys stood around a comrade who’d just been run over, clearly distraught....
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...families are more likely to be poor and in persistent poverty, live in areas of deprivation, have lower attainment and progress in comparison to White pupils in schools and be economically disadvantaged; 1 in 10 adults who identify as BME are more likely to be unemployed in comparison to White people at 1 in 25 (Race Disparity Audit, 2017). Within the Higher Education...
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The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...families navigate technology safely and addresses emerging parenting challenges in the digital age. Parentzone is one of the partner organisations at the Centre for Protecting Women Online. Vicki is also a Trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Association, Chair of international youth-led organisation Voicebox, and chairs a consortium of organisations researching...
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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...history, many science fiction scholars seem to confirm the legitimacy prejudice expressed by Sleigh. Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove coined the term “Generalization-22” for “the generalization which says that all science fiction is rubbish. . . . [The term is] not solely the creation of the hostile outside world. It has been fostered in part by the SF world, who...
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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...Histories, Octonauts and beyond. She lives and breathes unique, creative ideas and believes that the right idea can make a difference. Transcript Earth in Vision Project OK, so my name’s Dawn Parsonage Kent, I work for Green.TV and I’m the Creative Director. What I do So essentially I oversee the creative side of the production of the business, so this can mean...
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What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...families of viruses] Figure 1. Morphology and approximate relative size of different families of viruses. Viruses consist of DNA or RNA that is often tightly associated with proteins to give more stability. The genetic material (DNA or RNA) can be contained within regularly-shaped proteins that give geometric shapes (capsids) or have a looser membrane covering, or both....
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...history and of course literature. This revival conspicuously emphasized Irish folklore and myth, often in opposition to the modernity of industrial Britain. In many ways this revival heralded a golden age of Irish writing, inspiring writers such as W.B. Yeats and James Joyce. In the twentieth century, Irish Gothic writing still regularly explored folklore and mythology:...
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