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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...public machines in places such as cafes, libraries and workplaces. When using a password manager check that the password manager’s security functionality has been evaluated by a reputable independent organisation. Additionally, make sure you select a very strong password for controlling access to the password store. This will minimise the risk of attackers having access...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...public opinion to respond to the challenges of the climate crisis through its strong potential to accelerate political and financial will. Given its current trajectory, fossil fuel divestment is likely to gain momentum across more sectors and will both be further encouraged by and support COP26 and its goals. [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to...
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Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...public life, and the idealisation of traditional female roles in her writing, work which also emphasises devotional Catholic themes. ‘Any Woman’ (1911) The poem was originally published in the1911 collection New Poems under the title ‘The Mother’ and was frequently anthologised afterwards, later as ‘Any Woman’. What similarities can you find between this poem...
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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...public, but has it made taking up their chosen sport easier for competitors such as Yasmin? “With each Paralympic Games, we see an increase in people wanting to join in with disability sport”, she says. “The sports I play certainly see more people at least giving it a try, but an unfortunate aspect of disability sport is that it costs way too much. If someone...
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Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...public housing, with terrible results for families and a lack of political support, in favour of private, market provision. So we have continued to favour what are now established traditions, like the English terrace house. [A typical English terrace house ] How much change can we make without damaging the buildings we are trying to pass on to future generations? How can...
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D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services
Health, Sports & Psychology

D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services

...Publications. Nicholson, V. (2011) Millions like us. Women’s lives in war and peace 1939-1949, London, Penguin. Taylor, E. (1997) Front-line Nurse. British Nurses in World War II, Bury St Edmunds, St Edmundsbury Press. Taylor, E. (1999) Combat Nurse, London, Robert Hale. Tyrer, N. (2008) Sisters in Arms. British Army nurses tell their story, London, Weidenfeld &...
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Drugs and the law: Legal highs
Society, Politics & Law

Drugs and the law: Legal highs

...public attitudes to the use of drugs. The survey found that about three quarters of respondents aged 16–59 thought that it was acceptable for people of their own age to get drunk occasionally but only 5 per cent of adults believed that it was acceptable to get drunk frequently. However only a minority thought that it was acceptable to take illicit drugs either...
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Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...impact. This too has its own cycle of grief for the loss of colleagues, the loss of the unknown and fear for some, that they may be next. Further Reading Kübler-Ross, E. (1970) On death and dying. London: Tavistock Publications. Rousseau, D. M. and Tijoriwala, S. A. (1998) ‘Assessing psychological contracts: Issues, alternatives and measures’, 695, pp. 679–695....
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