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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...system and more than 125 million copies had been published by the 1920s. [McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). Public domain, New York Public Library.] McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). The Scots-Irish also contributed to American musical traditions. According to Mick Moloney, a professor of music at New York University, the songs and...
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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...systems. These are just a few examples of mathematics in our lives that immediately spring to mind, and I could go on and on. But this is not why mathematics fills me with wonder and awe. All I have said so far is that mathematics is a useful science, perhaps almost as useful as engineering. And that really would be missing the special nature of mathematics. It would be...
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Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...system. Water companies monitor household level water use, of course. Energy companies look at electricity use and so on. So there's a lot of big data already being collected in a lot of different places now. The data in a small city can also come from sensors in the built environment. So these are sensors that can pick up different kinds of information about the urban...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...system which taxed the rich and those who had profited from the war, and he also introduced an inheritance tax, all of which offended the bourgeois old elites. Conservative and right-wing politicians begun a vendetta against him. The assassination Erzberger was well aware that his life was in danger, and he survived several assassination attempts. In post-war Germany,...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...system, the same themes recurred: children are encouraged to cultivate affectionate, caring relationships with representations of other animals, while simultaneously being encouraged to consume real, exploited animals. Keeping our distance This socialisation process has a clear trajectory: as children grow up, our research shows that they are encouraged to increasingly...
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Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...system work for you, or do you need to amend it? Ethical considerations What others said: I made it far more complicated than it was because I should have just got on and done it but then in the end I had to put off my data collection the first time I organised it because I hadn’t got approval so ...it sounds silly but I should have just done it [earlier]. [EdD student,...
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Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...system action was known and well-respected. In low doses, it was even prescribed as neuro-stimulant, a kind of chemical pick-me-up for people complaining of flagging energy. To further confuse the case, then, the story’s victim, Mrs. Inglethorp, has herself just finished taking a strychnine tonic. But she had been taking it for weeks at far too trace a dose to have...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...system swyddogol ar gyfer achredu apiau llesiant yn y DU ar hyn o bryd, yn ddiweddar fe lansiodd y GIG lyfrgell brofi ar gyfer y rhai maen nhw’n eu hargymell. Mae ORCHA UK wedi ysgrifennu adolygiad o’r apiau iechyd meddwl a allai eich rhoi ar ben ffordd. Er mwyn cael ap Iechyd Meddwl Cymraeg, rhowch gynnig ar Ap Cwtsh. Ond os hoffech wybod a yw ap rydych yn dod ar ei...
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