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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...courses in the UK, 20 French higher education institutions offer Catalan Studies, as do 24 in the US. Catalan is the ninth language in Europe in terms of number of speakers – more than Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Greek. More than 80 television channels and more that 100 radio stations are broadcast daily in Catalan and there is a long publishing tradition. Each year in...
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Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...course Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm? As that course shows, harmful uses of other animals tend to be justified by speciesism – the idea that other animals’ interests are subservient to those of humans – which is an idea that is embedded very deeply in society. Speciesism, and the role that veganism plays in challenging it, is outlined in a free OpenLearn...
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Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!

...course at great speeds with only body movements to steer them, is known for producing unpredictable outcomes. Where is it taking place and when? The 25th Winter Olympic Games start on Friday 6 February in the north of Italy hosted jointly by Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. They are referred to as Milano Cortina and will actually be spread across five venues: Milan,...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...course. Bond certainly recognises his own theme, commenting in Octopussy that it’s a “charming tune” when a fellow agent, disguised as a snake charmer, plays it to attract his attention. This is a classic example of what academics might refer to as postmodern self-reflexivity—though that’s not to say it shouldn’t also be thought of as a joke! Beyond these two...
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What are the secrets of enduring love?
Society, Politics & Law

What are the secrets of enduring love?

...course of their relationship. We found again and again, that different people prioritised different approaches or managed their relationships in different ways. So you won’t find one secret recipe for success in this book, but instead you’ll hear about the many different things that people do which work so well for them. We’ll help you to recognise the small things...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...course there’s uncertainty, there’s always going to be uncertainty about future predictions. But at the same time they say but they’re very confident that the predictions will come out at the low end. So that’s not really a terribly coherent position to take, I would say. There’s quite often a lot of focus about the last 15 years or so of surface air...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s best-seller list (Good e-Reader, 2022). In France in...
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The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...course of twenty four hours, but the key hormone seems to be melatonin. Its concentration rises in the evening, which makes us feel sleepy; in fact one can take synthetic melatonin as a sleeping tablet. In the morning the concentration falls, helped by light. When the eyes receive strong light (not artificial lighting) melatonin production is depressed via links with the...
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