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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...2, becomes a much more difficult thing to do now than we did then. Mind you, they haven’t tried it for a bit! Any regrets? Oh, there’s lots of trivial programmes, yes, but I don’t think there’s anything I’m ashamed of. I would be ashamed if we bowdlerized nature, if we deliberately distorted nature in the name of popularity, that would be something to be ashamed...
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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...2), pp. 125–43. Bonilla-Silva, E. (2019) ‘Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions’. American Sociological Review, 84(1), pp. 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418816958 Gordon, J. and Johnson, M. (2003) ‘Race, speech, and hostile educational environment: What color is free speech?’ Journal of Social Philosophy, 34, pp. 414–36. Harrison, C....
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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...2 litres per day excluding coffee, tea, alcohol as these are dehydrating beverages and have a further diuretic effect. For each cup of coffee or tea or alcohol, we would ideally have another glass of water. Staying hydrated is good and very necessary for our physical and mental wellbeing. Please be mindful as we grow older, we may also forget to drink, and our feeling of...
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On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...2’ in a series of indents that echoed the different values of the channel, not only did the he succeed in making the channel more accessible, the indents almost became more popular than the channel itself. It was for this reason that when Lambie-Nairn was recalled in 1997 to redesign the BBC’s identity, from its corporate logo to all of its radio and television...
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A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...2 A.M. to 11 P.M. affects me with a sense of infinity, of horrid sameness, just as the sea or the desert would do. I feel that for too long a period I am under the eye of the taskmaster. Twilight is always in itself, or at least in its suggestions, melancholy; and these midsummer twilights are so long, they pass through such series of lovely change, they are throughout so...
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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...2 Now listen to the following audio conversation between James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks. James Clackson So if it’s the form of speech that changes not the written form of language, then how do we know about any changes that take place in a language like Latin where we don’t have the spoken form? We only have the written form of Latin, we don’t have tape...
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Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...2 Celsius danger threshold and it’s very heavily dependent on carbon capture and storage, a technology which has been rejected by the German people because they won’t have CO2 pumped under their homes; it’s extremely expensive, the Norwegians who’ve been trying to bring it on are losing patience with it, they can’t understand why they can’t get the cost down;...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...2 How does Shine use language and setting effectively to create a feeling of tension and danger in the following extract from The Watchers? Extract “The storm lasted for two days and nights. The gale howled loudest through the living room’s bare frames, throwing nature’s wreckage into the corners, and spinning dry ash and whirlwinds across the floor. Branches split...
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