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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...education, scientific research, and governance, while others are left to die a slow death. Because it's not obviously profitable to create media in “minority” languages, the growth and enrichment of those languages suffer, and many remain entirely undocumented. Just a few hundred years ago, the Latin alphabet was largely unknown on the continents of Africa, the...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...educate clinicians, research scientists, and the public, on these diseases. What causes rare diseases? Most rare diseases (thought to be around 80%) have an inheritable genetic origin. These include HD and CF, mentioned above, and also a group of rare diseases collectively called Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The NCLs include CLN3 disease (the juvenile onset form...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...of Essential Theory and Research. London: Psychology Press. Besieux, T. (2017) ‘Why I hate feedback: Anchoring effective feedback within organizations’, Business Horizons, 60(4), pp. 435–9, doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2017.03.001. Shute, V. (2008) ‘Focus on formative feedback’, Review of Educational Research, 78(1), pp. 153–89. doi: 10.3102/0034654307313795....
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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...education, the nature and power that specific paradigms hold… let’s think about the distinctions between humanities and sciences and their economic cachet… this is why I hover in the social sciences domain as they sort of straddle these contexts… A vast amount of money in national budgets is deployed to Defence (a definition that masks itself in the opposite...
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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...technological innovation, policy decision, policy recommendation, official statement or political action and so on. Make it relevant In your pitch, you should demonstrate that you are familiar with the publication’s sections by saying where you envisage your piece appearing. For example, the opinion section in New Scientist. Make it original Don’t pitch stories from...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...Technology: Cyber Rebellion: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Struggle to Break the Power of Secrecy in the Global War on Terror* Listen: Tim Berners-Lee on Wikileaks How damaging were the leaks? While many supported Manning and Wikileaks for making the data public, prosecutors and others insisted that her actions had damaged the US, and put lives at risk. The...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...technologies? JONNY GELLER: Well, I think publishing needed disruption and I think Amazon is an extraordinary business. I quite like the fact that lots of publishers’ feathers were ruffled and they had to improve their game, because they tend to be rather passive. And I think they are slowly becoming a little bit more proactive, which is great. The issue is really about...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...Technology...Forth Road Bridge: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic structural issues of the Forth Road Bridge give examples of how engineers are trying to alleviate the wear and tear on the bridge...Forth Road Bridge: 1 The Forth Road Bridge - Edinburgh reaches over the Firth of Forth with two great bridges – the...
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