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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...public domain, circulating as a set of ideas – on the basis of which movements are established, political projects forged and power relations challenged and sustained. A theory of conspiracy theories Where does this leave the psychology of conspiracy theories? Clearly, looking for stable psychological characteristics or cognitive biases that differentiate believers from...
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Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Snake: Chinese Lunar New Year

...at any time, and they provide digital badges for completion. For further information, please visit the short courses page. The Online Confucius Institute at The Open University holds regular free online public talks in Chinese history, culture and society as well as regular online book club sessions on Modern Chinese Literature. Keep an eye on the Upcoming events page....
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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...public school. Whilst I wasn’t designing beautiful objects like this I was learning how to be an engineer - telecommunications that was my speciality. I mean this is something which I think is absolutely gorgeous still to this day. I mean you could put that on your mantelpiece couldn’t you? Benjamin Zephaniah You really see beauty in that? Chi Onwurah I do, I think...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...public monuments, even though their authors may have become celebrated national figures (or been subject to forms of revisionism in assessments of their personal lives). Fictional works can present incommensurable meanings or develop multiple perspectives, and their capacity to sustain different interpretation is what makes them so fascinating. Literary works are also...
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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...public life, the Church was of great importance as one of the few national institutions where the language could be used in a high-register milieu. From the 17th century onwards, the Kirk made an effort to provide a Gaelic-speaking ministry for the Highlands, although a shortage of qualified ministers caused difficulties. However, hostility to the language in official...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...public, prosecutors and others insisted that her actions had damaged the US, and put lives at risk. The Associated Press reports: From the highest levels of the U.S. government, civilian and military leaders argued that Manning had violated pledges made to get his top secret clearance, potentially endangered U.S. agents, and made classified information accessible to...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...public good when they’re raking fortunes in profits. So there is no doubt that the market does have a huge amount of influence on the choices that agents make. What happens is the agent takes a gamble with their time on something they think is going to either buck the trend or… or begin a new one and also feed the old trends. What happens is publishers find something...
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‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...publication there are 6,552 fishing vessels in the UK (90% of fishing businesses only have one vessel), and the industry employs around 12,000 fishermen. Between them the vessels landed 758.8 thousand tonnes, worth just over a billion pounds in 2014. On average UK vessels land around 400,000 tonnes of fish each year in the UK, and between 200,000 and 300,000 tonnes...
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