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Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...de la vida y del mundo. Al desaparecer, se pierde la cosmovisión y cosmogonía única de cada pueblo, perdiéndose una parte importante de la humanidad. The indigenous languages encompass a unique vision of life and of the world. Their disappearance would imply a loss of the unique world view and existence of each community; an important part of humanity. In this sense,...
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Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...de Blogs de Ciencia nace con el propósito de reunir esfuerzos de divulgación científica realizada por blogueros de diversos países latinoamericanos que, desde sus distintas disciplinas e inquietudes, intentan reponer el valor de la ciencia en las redes sociales. La Red Latinoamericana de Blogs de Ciencia [The Latin ......
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Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...prompting further questions regarding responsible action. Course overview: TD866 - Environmental Responsibility Course Chair Martin Reynolds, Lecturer in Systems and Environments briefly reflects on his academic background before looking more closely at the deeper issues raised in TD866 Environmental Responsibility. Martin also discusses what questions you might expect to...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...prompted the creation of a new word at this exact time, however, it is possible that a major event such as a fireball or a large shower of iron meteorites could have been witnessed by ancient Egyptians leaving them with little uncertainty to where this material came from and linking it to the sky definitively. Interestingly, a large crater produced by a hypervelocity...
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OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...concept of the OpenSTEM Labs, which will in effect form an “Internet of Laboratory Things” that could be open all hours and available in a real distance learning setting. This is enabling OU students to work at a distance with a range of sophisticated, remote-controlled experiments and robotic apparatus. Transcript Professor Braithwaite will be joined by: Dr Tim...
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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...concepts: What we mean by learning? What counts as worthwhile knowledge? How do these definitions change according to context? The study drew from both practical and theoretical knowledge to respond to the research question. A Professional Doctoral thesis is usually 65,000 words. But 65,000 words were not enough for Gillian whose project made use of visual diagrams to...
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The future of emojis
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The future of emojis

...concepts with a broad application to the human experience and how we interact with the world, especially if those can be combined with other emojis to create new concepts. PS: Related to this is the issue of ‘emoji overload’ – whether there are, or will soon be, simply too many emojis in the lexicon. This has practical considerations (it can take longer to find the...
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African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...De Brosses to describe African religions in general. In doing so De Brosses extended the term fetishism to African people, cultures and traditional religions by placing this term in opposition to the European Enlightenment ideal of rational thought and to the Catholic Christian dogma of idolatry (Böhme, 2014). As reported by Böhme, fetish gradually replaced the concept...
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