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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...community because herd immunity is one of the benefits of widespread vaccination. There is currently no Covid-19 vaccine. The demonstration in Footman 477's video tries to show what the government seems to think it is doing. Footman 477 uses a bucket and a plastic bottle with a hole to explain how allowing a trickle of people to become infected and pass through the health...
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A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...and articulating this particularly human story of language, culture and identity and the histories and geographies that bind them together. It is a tale of a marginalised population clinging, both literally and metaphorically, to the edge of a continent and how strength is gained from small but defiant communities connecting people, and chough, and places together....
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Article 10 mins
OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...communications. I'm a carer for an autistic 25 year old recently diagnosed. I wanted to help understand her and help her understand herself too. You may have saved her life. …I feel empowered to support people more confidently through my work. Before Covid I didn't have the time to do a course this in depth … this course is amazing and I get brownie points at the end...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...community the project will produce guidelines for carrying out tree surveys with the aim of standardising the way in which urban tree data is collected. Secondly, the project will produce a new optimised Treezilla website and mobile app that will improve the whole data collection process for amateur tree data collectors through to the more experienced data collector....
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Article 10 mins
The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...community, of the area, because it… there was always swaying. It had the up-and-down motion from so much weight on it, and everybody always said wow this bridge is going to fall someday. But then you look back at the design, it was a different design, and we felt that it… because of the design it had that built-in motion so to speak. So, you talked about it, but did...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...At an industry, organisational or enterprise level, we have the potential to make changes whose effect multiplies across our communities to give significant scale. More on digital carbon footprints This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
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NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...communal blocs. However, both Unionism and Nationalism have seen fluctuating vote shares since 1998 with rises, declines and minor shifts characterising both. One bloc that has grown since 2003 is the “none of the above” voter base. In 2003, this bloc represented just 5.6% of voters. By 2022 this had risen to above 15% and has risen at every election (2007, 2011,...
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iSpot: Your place to share nature
Nature & Environment

iSpot: Your place to share nature

...community and: Explore: browse the thousands of species spotted so far, Identify and record: add your observation; identify them, get help with identifications. Contribute: help identify observations, comment and join in discussions; a reputation system motivates and rewards, awarding badges for contributions. Personalise and Learn: participate in citizen science...
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