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The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez
History & The Arts

The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez

...work which contains no prescribed sound at all, whose best-known book on music is called Silence. He was a close friend of Boulez in the 1950s; Bowie named Silence as one of his favourite books. Cage was convinced that the conventional, the ordinary, the expected, were all enemies of the truly musical. Boulez took from him a commitment to the utterly new; Bowie’s...
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Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters
Nature & Environment

Extinctions at World Heritage Sites aren't just environmental disasters

...warns that populations of some fish, lobsters and molluscs have declined dramatically in recent years, leaving local fishermen and traders with less stock to sell. “It's a constant battle” she says. “Unless NGOs, society and government work together, we will not see a major change”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Now live: Could we control our climate?
Science, Maths & Technology

Now live: Could we control our climate?

...working as we expected? How would different countries collaborate or compete? What would we as a society be trying to preserve – and what would we be willing to risk? To answer these questions, you will learn about some of the science and mathematics involved in measuring, predicting and potentially controlling climate change. You will also consider the context in which...
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British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Education & Development

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

...working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist at a time when face-to-face therapy is neither possible nor safe. Course completion will boost your knowledge and confidence, and will support counsellors and psychotherapists to offer technology-based counselling safely and effectively. Find out more here. For help and assistance on OpenLearn, get in contact by email:...
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Ever Wondered About... Pancakes?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pancakes?

...work out something about the diet of the hen that laid it. A hen fed yellow corn will lay eggs with a deeper coloured yolk, while a diet of barley or wheat makes for a lighter shade. Adding marigold petals to a hen’s diet will darken the yolk. And another colourful fact about eggs — you can tell what shade of eggshell a hen will lay by looking at her ear tufts, the...
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What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide

...work of producing the products or delivering the services. Mintzberg’s generic organisational model also illustrates an important principle of organisation structure: the separation of direction and management, whereby those people who decide the mission and general direction of the organisation are different (other than in a very small organisation) from those who...
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Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...work?” There are also larger questions about current free trade agreements. In particular, many object to their benefiting of corporations and political elites. It reflects a broader global “race to the bottom” where countries compete with each other for business investment through reducing their social welfare, taxes and labour as well as environmental regulations....
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Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...work around the monograph he is writing for Manchester University Press, The Art of The Faerie Queene, and which builds on book, co-authored with J. B. Lethbridge, 2013's A Concordance to the Rhymes of The Faerie Queene. Professor Danson Brown said: “I will look at the self-conscious manipulation of devices like simile in Elizabethan poetry in terms of the demands they...
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