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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing fantasy and science fiction, but she was also a poet, essayist, historical fiction writer, and children’s writer. In 2017 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters after having won numerous awards,...
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Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup

...World Cup 2026, explore the effects of being in a training camp and at a tournament for a sustained period of time...The England and Scottish World Cup squads arrived at their pre-tournament training camps in Florida on 1 June 2026. If either England or Scotland were to make the final of the World Cup in New Jersey on 19 July, the players and support staff will have been...
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Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway in Scotland During both World Wars

...World War affect the railway industry? How did the railways impact women's lives during both wars? This article explores...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Background During the First World War the railway network was a central part of the war effort. It was relied upon to transport medical supplies and military equipment, army...
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After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...World War...Find out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications [Nationalists demonstrating in Cairo in march 1919] Egyptian nationalists demonstrating in Cairo, March 1919 In 2011, millions tuned in to watch extraordinary scenes of enormous demonstrations in the centre of Cairo against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to...
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Can eating seaweed and algae keep the world fed?
Nature & Environment

Can eating seaweed and algae keep the world fed?

...world grows richer will require 60% more food by the middle of the century. But around 90% of the world’s fish stocks are already seriously depleted. Pollution and increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere, which is making the oceans warmer and more acidic, are also a significant threat to marine life. There is potential to increase ocean food...
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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...world they demand, if carried out, would plunge much of the world into economic depression and cause immense international conflict. We would be back in the 1930s, heading for disaster. Alarmingly, the losers’ anger is also a revolt against the liberal Enlightenment values of tolerance and openness to progressive ideas that seemed, only 25 years ago, to finally have...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...mission. John and Karl were writing in support of a special edition of BBC Radio 4's The Material World, which was first broadcast on November 27th, 2008. You can listen to the full programme online. Find out more Stardate: Mission To Titan - our space series reported on the mission Mission to Brighton - finding penetrometers impenterable? Try our interactive explanation....
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The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

What do we know about Jupiter's and Saturn's icy moons? Could there be life on them? This article explores what previous missions can tell us and what future missions hope to find out...Over the last two decades we have come to recognise that the icy, airless, frozen moons of the distant gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn are among the most likely places in our Solar...
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