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How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?
Nature & Environment

How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?

...human-caused climate change to the world’s coral reefs. Heat stress from record high summer temperatures damages the microscopic algae (zooxanthellae) that live in the tissues of corals, turning them white. After they bleach, these stressed corals either slowly regain their zooxanthellae and colour as temperatures cool off, or else they die. The Great Barrier Reef...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...human being. However the task of transforming this information into living matter involves the vital work of ribosomes. Using the information in DNA, ribosomes make proteins including hormones such as insulin, haemoglobin to transport oxygen in our blood, antibodies vital to the immune system, and the collagen within our skin. There are thousands of proteins in the body...
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Parlez-vous Eurovision?
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Parlez-vous Eurovision?

...human rights have become main issues in the contest. Last year’s clearly audible booing of the Russian entry because of their homophobic policies and Ukraine intervention was evidence of this, even though you couldn’t help feeling sorry for the 17-year-old twins who represented their country and whose performance had nothing to do with the booing. This year,...
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Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Were most women overlooked from the Ascent of Woman?

...that Anonymous was a woman “who made the ballads and the folksongs, crooning them to her children, beguiling her spinning with them, or the length of the winter’s night”. If we are to write woman into the history of humanity, we need to listen to Anonymous.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI
Education & Development

Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI

...defining their own ethical boundaries. The conversations captured in these 92 stories remind us that the future of education will not be shaped by technology alone. It will be shaped by the choices learners make about how they use it. And perhaps that is the most important lesson of all. In a world of increasingly powerful AI, learning remains a deeply human endeavour....
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What are the secrets of enduring love?
Society, Politics & Law

What are the secrets of enduring love?

...human contact. One person talks about the importance of having separate interests, another focuses on spending as much time as possible together. One says it’s all about talking things through until they’re resolved, another says they’ve learnt when it’s best to walk away from an argument. There are plenty of books out there claiming to have the ‘secret’ of...
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A history of Reproductive Justice’s spread across the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

A history of Reproductive Justice’s spread across the world

...human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy the right to have a child the right to not have a child the right to parent a child or children in safe and healthy environments Reproductive Justice is often spoken about today as if it were a recent innovation; a neat phrase that captures a wide range of rights, needs, and inequalities. But before the 1990’s, there were...
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...human beings as well as other sorts of comfort objects. While not all children do so, many make use of objects like favourite feeding bottles or a comfort blanket to which they develop a strong attachment. Winnicott (1953) described such attachments as involving ‘transitional objects’. He argued that such attachments represent a developmental stage whereby the infant...
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