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The debate on the origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

The debate on the origins of the First World War

...out. This article explores the origins of the Great War...Find out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications How could the death of one man, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated on 28 June 1914, lead to the deaths of millions in a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity? This is the question at the heart of the debate on the origins of...
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Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing
Science, Maths & Technology

Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing

...out about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Learn about Moon rocks The video below explains how to view Moon rocks under a Virtual Microscope and what we can discover. Transcript My name is Mahesh Anand and I investigate Moon rocks collected by the Apollo astronauts. These Moon rocks are on loan from NASA for our research - which as you can see -...
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Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?
Education & Development

Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?

...out asexual politician in 2015. The Other One Percent Asexuality is still so little known and little understood by anyone outside of the community that it is colloquially known in the LGBTQIA community as the Invisible Orientation, so much so that there is a book so entitled, an introduction to asexuality by Julie Sondra Decker (2014). It is thought that Asexuality makes...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...out to titillate 21st century audiences, to satisfy our desire for a bit of rough in our education about the Victorians. Yet few have dared to expose this material in any significant quantity, to highlight the presence of very graphic violence in multiple, even connected, entertainment genres. Violent entertainments fulfilled an important function in the evolution of...
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‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain
Society, Politics & Law

‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain

...out of an initiative under the rubric of Better Regulation, overseen by the second New Labour Government. In 2004, Sir Phillip Hampton was appointed by Chancellor Gordon Brown to oversee a review of Remit encompassed 63 major regulatory bodies - including the Environment Agency, the Food Standards Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, and the Financial Services...
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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...out to defend what he called ‘the freedom of philosophising’ in the anonymously published Theological-Political Treatise. He gave two arguments. The case for free speech First, freedom of speech is needed for rational inquiry, education and collegial debate, and these things enhance everyone’s lives. The true ‘end of the Republic is really freedom’, he wrote,...
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Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Nature & Environment

Do animals really raise human babies as their own?

...out to her and carried it up a tree where she groomed it, carrying it higher each time it cried. The pair eventually curled up together and slept, but the baby died in the night and it was only then that Legadema returned to the mother baboon’s body to eat. Such examples might be dismissed as the exceptions that prove the rule and we don’t know what would have...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...out on the mountain pastures, though only because the solitude and silence gave him ample opportunity to meditate and to write poetry. [Historic black and white image of Hedd Wyn ]Hedd Wyn was 30 years old when he was killed. Conscription And then came war. Hedd Wyn’s fate, along with thousands of others, was sealed when parliament passed the Military Service Act in...
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