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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...Studies. As a social anthropologist she is passionate about research, and has been conducting a research project on Olaudah Equiano’s life in Cambridge and his contribution to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. This project revealed fascinating insights into the social and working relationships between eighteenth-century free Black men in England, English...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...studies estimating that there are potentially hundreds of millions of species of organisms. Humans, like other organisms, are dependent on this diversity, whether it is for direct resources as food and shelter or the various ecosystems services that sustain and enrich our existence (for example, services such as nutrient cycling and even recreation). When looking at the...
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Article 10 mins
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...study. [Wembledy stadium modern football] References 1. Long, S. (2016), ‘Manchester United’s legendary squad earned less than one quarter of Wayne Rooney’s annual salary’, The Evening Standard [online]. Accessed 11th March 2019. Available at:
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Article 5 mins
Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...study on voluntary grave digging has been about a male only practice, many participants wanted to stress it exists in a wider context of community support to bereaved families. This is centred around the pre-funeral wake and wakehouse, where the deceased is present in an open coffin. The wakehouse is usually run, managed and provisioned, just by women. This article is...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...studies...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how different writing systems have developed over time understand how technology influences what we can do with language, and the form that language takes...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...study on polio, where we discuss the prospects for making this the second infectious disease to be eradicated by vaccination. At the end of section 5 you will study the mini-lecture on vaccination. You will conclude your study of this chapter by conducting some internet research on the progress of vaccination programmes. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...studying any science and technology discipline. This free course, Maths for science and technology, will help you build a stronger grip with the maths helping hand. You’ll learn about how the power of algebra, the sense of scientific notation, the beauty of basic trigonometry and why 70 db (decibels) is 10 times more powerful than 60 db. As well as this you will delve...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...Studies, a private nonprofit research center. These nonverbals are of fundamental importance to communication, and they often mean more than what is actually being said. This is something that traditional pundits fail to give due credit. This failure can be seen in previous debates in which Trump participated for the Republican presidential nomination. In most cases,...
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