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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...public. There is a clear need for increased policy action and support from the government for the retrofit of our existing buildings. We all, however, have a responsibility to take action to reduce our personal carbon emissions. There are actions that everyone can take to improve the performance of their buildings and do their bit to help save the planet. These types of...
Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...Publications. Tolstly, Leo (1894) The Kingdom of God is Within You: or Christianity not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life Conception. London: Walter Scott. Zahab, M.A. (2007) ‘“I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise”: the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)’ in Rao, A., Bollig, M. and Böck, M. (eds) The Practice of War:...
The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...public and private lives that impacts on well-being. The digital aspect, using portable technology, may be another home base: not location-specific, but transferrable between places. Home in later life Does the meaning of home change in later life? The concept of home is mostly seen as positive and supportive. The opposite view can report a place of isolation, abuse and...
Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...publically available online tools to identify these variants and determine whether there are genes or non-coding regions of DNA underlying multiple pathways or processes in cancers. Some of these tools are built into databases directly, to help scientist carry out such analyses. Tools such as R and R’s Bioconductor are programs that allow users to analyse data of DNA...
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
History & The Arts

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

...publication of poetry (“copy”) into the future. I also referred to a line in Sonnet 76: Invention in a noted weed [so] every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed Shakespeare may be saying here that his writings were “born” from the use of “a noted weed”, a term associated with tobacco, which can include cannabis. Apart...
Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...any time of the year. If you’d like to find out about the latest news, public talks and courses relating to Chinese language and culture at The Open University, please visit the Online Confucius Institute. Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to Dr Ligao Wu, Chinese Director of the Onlien Confucius Institute at The Open University, for his contribution to this article....
From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...public debate. From the earliest theories of autism, researchers looked for someone or something to blame. In the 1950s and 1960s, psychiatrists such as Leo Kanner – an Austrian-American physician who first described autism as a distinct condition in 1943 – and Bruno Bettelheim – a Viennese-born American psychologist known for his controversial theories on child...
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...health must be one of the best health reports ever - but does this mean we can scoff all of Thorton's? Chocolate carries a lot of calories in a small bar, which makes it a high energy food and really good for polar explorers. But what about us mere mortals? Dr Claire Turner explains: "The Cochrane Group report in 2012 showed that consuming an amount of up to 100g of dark...