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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...world. But as a teenager, I had no idea how to respond or what to do at first but then became more engaged at University. [A group of people gather in a religious circle] During my undergraduate study in agricultural science, I began to look at the development process and its role in food security, food safety and sustainability because there was aggressive marketing of...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...world impact. Areas with better reputations will likely have higher house prices. Areas that are labelled as deprived or poor will likely have a narrower range of amenities, services, and opportunities available to residents. What’s more, the UK public seems keenly aware of the importance of place. ...a large proportion of the population (61%) see geographical...
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What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...world?...Find out more about The Open University's Biology courses and qualifications [Green antibiotic pills] Adapted from the Open University module K203, Working for Health. Modern western scientific medicine is often called "biomedical" because it explains health in terms of biology. It attaches importance to learning about body structure (anatomy) and systems...
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Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Katherine Tynan

...world remote from our own. Tynan has no concern here to convey a sense of Irish ‘otherness’ in the language which avoids dialect, Gaelic words and colloquialisms. Though there is no explicit reference to Ireland or Irish culture, the critic Donna Potts has argued that Tynan’s poetry consistently draws on ‘two powerful symbols in Irish Catholic culture: Mother...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...painting The Nightmare, with its impish demon squatting on the chest of a sleeping woman, comes to life; as does Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vision of a woman with eyes in place of her nipples. Thus it is that the sexual licence which drove Shelley’s philosophy becomes, in the story world of the film, a source not for legal or moral upheaval, but emotional anarchy....
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The selective breeding of dogs
Science, Maths & Technology

The selective breeding of dogs

...world and all are maintained as pure-bred stocks through selective breeding, which aims to maintain a closed genetic lineage. Most dog traits follow simple genetic rules. Traits are often referred to as being dominant or recessive. Just like humans, dogs have two copies of each gene (one inherited from mum and one from dad), but the letters making up each gene can be...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...world of cars and garages more often associated with heterosexual norms and ‘fathers’. We can see Colette Bryce’s ‘outsiderness’ in this poem: quietly and sensually, the lovers defy mainstream social codes. As with the rope trick, the car wash is a clear, everyday image. At the same time, it stands for complex ideas about public and private lives. [Photograph:...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...world. Ecodesign principles reflect the principles of organization that nature has evolved to sustain the web of life. (Capra, 2002, p. 203). What does this look like in practice? I will now outline how I’ve applied Capra’s six principles of ecology (2002, p. 202) at the ‘house that feeds’ (the home and lab I designed in 2011 for experimenting with ecological...
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