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National Novel Writing Month
History & The Arts

National Novel Writing Month

...becoming a writer through reading, enrol on our free course - Creative writing and critical reading on OpenLearn. And if your story ideas involve characters and an enticing plot, then Start writing fiction: characters and stories could be the perfect free course for you. You’ve finished your novel now what? Firstly, well done! If you want to take it further and see your...
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Is trick-or-treating legal or not?
Society, Politics & Law

Is trick-or-treating legal or not?

...becomes more intrusive and, depending on how long it persists, may risk being seen as harassment. Then there is the nature of the ‘trick’ element of trick-or-treating. A small and harmless trick played on someone who is willing to take part is more likely to be seen as reasonable, but ‘flour bombing’ someone’s property or throwing eggs at a party is less...
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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...become increasingly dependent on food imports since the 1980s, with about 50% of its food and feed currently being imported. In effect, the UK is exporting the environmental impact and leaving producer nations with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions released in the service of the British supper table. The UK’s “land footprint” – another term for...
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Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...becomes lighter as it moves outwards. As everything else in Byzantine art, this is highly intentional: it is there to remind the faithful that the Transfiguration is a feast of light, as described in the homilies of Church Fathers – and what other colour is better associated with light than white? Furthermore, white is directly connected with purity; Christ’s both...
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What is forensic science?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is forensic science?

...become a crime scene they will leave behind distinguishing evidence, and moreover take some part of the scene with them. It is the job of forensic scientists to discover and verify the exchange of materials. In addition to his exchange principle, Locard is credited with starting the first crime laboratory in an attic within a Lyon police station during 1910. The history...
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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...become more equipped to deal with the world around them. In this video Nathalia Gjersoe focuses on the future, and especially on the impact of changes to formal schooling and education in the next decade and beyond. Childhood in the Digital Age (Combined) Are you a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? The amount of technology available to children today is...
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus,...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...become a valuable way of using film to say ‘We are here!’ And again this process has become gradually more democratised with advances in technology. In the early days, the assistance of sympathetic professionals was needed, as when pioneering photographers went into the slums to photograph the miserable conditions of the nineteenth-century working classes. Their 1930s...
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