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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...family and friends. Woolf shared a passionate interest in ‘intermediality’ with the Modernists, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Katherine Mansfield, too. She spoke, then, for many of her contemporaries when she wrote in a letter of 1899 that music, rather than literature, seemed to her the ‘nearest to truth’. This article originally appeared...
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How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?

...histories. In retrospect, it is somewhat bizarre that nobody in the golden era of antibiotics questioned why soil bacteria make medicines for human illnesses. The usual explanation was that soil bacteria are fiercely competitive, continually fighting for living space in the soil under our feet and that antibiotics are a happy side-effect of this ongoing microbial battle....
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Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...history has taken a court discussion this far. Most Republican identities do not want to endorse, much less campaign for, Trump. However, with the Republican Senate majority (the Senate must approve Supreme Court appointments) likely compromised by a messy campaign, the court message is a major gambit by Trump to rally the party behind him and remind it of the need for a...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...History (with artist Julia Scheele) is a comic about what queer theory is and how it might be useful in people’s lives. Moving anticlockwise to the top left, I’ve also conducted my own research into self-help, which informs my wider project. For example, Ros Gill, Laura Harvey and I are writing an academic book based on our research on sex advice. The method for my...
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Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...history, it’s unclear as yet what longer-term part it might play in any trends beyond pink and black fashions. Crucially, if Hollywood and other national cinema industries are going to be ‘saved’, funders need to invest in creative talent and original ideas to attract audiences. It’s only when staff and audience needs are properly recognised that cinema can truly...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...history, OpenLearn’s inclusive, innovative and responsive work has positively impacted millions of people: 73.9% said using OpenLearn had improved confidence in their ability to study and 45.3% thought it had improved their employability. Career knowledge and skills In 2020 OpenLearn was a flagship partner for the UK Department for Education’s new The Skills Toolkit,...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...history of OU systems thinking - Systems Thinking at the Open University: 50-year celebration (OU Systems @50) is available to download (Ison, 2021). Reasons to be cheerful Fifty years on, the OU has a thriving postgraduate suite of qualifications in systems thinking in practice (STiP) and extensive experience of designing and delivering STiP education and scholarship....
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...history long before we touch them. Approximately 80% of a product’s lifetime carbon footprint is embodied within the device itself. This includes the CO2e generated during manufacture, storage, and transportation. That means that when you buy a new smartphone that requires a USB cable for charging, that cable’s CO2e emissions (as well as the charger and packaging) are...
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