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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...works. But 55 years after its publication, it’s still A Clockwork Orange which has the most enduring influence. One of the more unusual examples of this influence was the novel’s appropriation by the espionage community. During the 1970s, the title supposedly became the codename for an alleged campaign to undermine the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Prompted,...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...working with urgent change and sustainability in design...Resilience – the property of being able to rebound after a shock or disturbance – has its origins in materials science and psychology. You may recognise the term applied to career development, business supply chains, farming, disaster recovery and more. Our focus on resilience here, however, is as an emergent...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...work was greeted with critical acclaim. Morrissey won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for an unpublished manuscript at the age of 18, making her the youngest poet ever to do so. Three of her first four collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, which she eventually won with Parallax. She is also recipient of the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize and the Foreword Poetry...
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...work together with this thing we call language – the powerful mind-manipulation tool that I am using right now to get these ideas from my head to yours without the need for surgery. Despite language being an extraordinarily complex system of sounds, grammar and meaning, children the world over have mastered many of its intricacies by their fifth birthday. By calculating...
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What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...worked, lived and studied across cultures or because they had mixed heritage. A lot of distress also came from either feeling like they didn’t fit in (‘separation’) or from feeling disconnected from both the new culture and the one they formerly felt affiliated with (‘marginalization’). The process of adapting to a new culture has been referred to as...
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How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...working independently, planning ahead, identifying relevant research, writing academically, and asking for help when needed. Thus a range of skills are needed for a module which also has substantial weighting on the degree classification. The module was taught fully online, though students were provided with books and online materials to engage with. Two research...
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient ways of entertaining large numbers of patients. By the middle of the 19th century, almost all the larger asylums in the UK had their own band and would often organise dances, attended by over a hundred patients. Asylums also hosted concerts by travelling performers, from comic sketches to solo...
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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...worked with sites across England to learn from carers. Their project – Walking the Walk – was born out of the need to improve the experience of distressed and grieving carers as their loved ones were approaching the end of life. The project has been undertaken in over 25 care settings and although each environment is different, they all have an opportunity and a...
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