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The benefits of social media in academia
Education & Development

The benefits of social media in academia

...world through shared profiles, and shared research. If you haven’t yet created a profile, or if you’re only just joining the online academic community, social media is an effective way to connect with others who might share your research interests. You may notice that on most professional body and academic institution websites that both existing and prospective...
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Designing interactive systems for dogs
Digital & Computing

Designing interactive systems for dogs

...world around them, so when presented with different styles of switches, buttons and other controls it may be hard for them to realise that they have the same functions. Of course dogs also come in all shapes and sizes, so any design needs to be versatile enough to account for such a variety. The design of domestic appliances could be friendlier to dogs, particularly to...
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David Bowie: identity is creativity
Languages

David Bowie: identity is creativity

...world’ he portrays himself in ‘Lazarus’, eyes bound like a latter day Tiresias, floating inches above a hospital bed, singing ‘Look up here man, I’m in danger/ I’ve got nothing left to lose./I’m so high it makes my brain whirl.’ The prettiest star fallen to earth. The title of that final song (and album) Blackstar also throw light on his conception of...
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Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...world and compares attitudes and management techniques within the social work field. Material is taken from The Open University Course K315 Critical social work practice... Critical social work practice A short introduction to this album. What is critical practice? A look at the meaning of critical practice, the views of service users, and the professional power of social...
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The politics of food introduction
Society, Politics & Law

The politics of food introduction

...world is divided between what we would call artisan and industrial cider makers. We grow 40 different varieties of apples and produce a cider with a provenance that it comes from this part of Somerset and produce a brandy, which we can claim the same for. We sell cider out of barrels, we have done for all my life, certainly on this farm for the last 150 years. Slowly we...
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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...world as it is interpreted by their creators. The graphs and tables used to sell financial products are models of the expected performance of those products, and at the national level, we are told that Government has a model of ‘the economy’ on which it bases decisions about tax rates, interest rates and other aspects of fiscal policy. At a more fundamental level, all...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...world. But real recording success only came when the pace was slowed to allow her to drape those yearning, keening vocals over two ballads. Her cover version of the classic Anyone Who Had A Heart (an infamously challenging melody, full of unexpected time signatures and octave leaps) is customarily dismissed by purists, who cleave umbilically to the Dionne Warwick...
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Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...world leaders welcomed the air strikes and hailed them as a strong signal in the fight to end the use of chemical weapons. German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande issued a joint statement in defense of Trump’s action, and the leaders of countries as diverse as Japan, Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Italy and Denmark have all...
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