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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...intelligence and ideas about practical conflict resolution. The theory that those who have worked through conflict can best understand those still in conflict, offering insights and support, remains true to this day. That is why I remain an enthusiast for peaceful, democratic progress in Baghdad, Belfast, Bogota or Barcelona and utterly confident that we can overcome our...
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Article 10 mins
Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list
History & The Arts

Desert Island Discs at 75: An OpenLearn listening list

...intelligence? Susan Blackmore [Susan Blackmore] Susan Blackmore Susan Blackmore is a psychologist. She's explored the idea of consicousness and the sense of self. Earlier in her career, she was a leading thinker in the field of parapsychology - taking a sceptical approach to paranormal. It's a field she's since left. Part of the reason for moving away from the...
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Audio 10 mins
What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?
Science, Maths & Technology

What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?

...intelligence, poor memory and attention deficit disorder. Mercury compounds have no detectable effect on the mother, but can be detected in her hair, and mercury levels in maternal hair are strongly related to the severity of post-birth effects in children. Is the risk from mercury higher for infants and nursing mothers? Infants can also be exposed to mercury compounds...
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Article 5 mins
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...Artificial pacemaker: Two Australian scientists, Mark C. Lidwill and Edgar H. Booth, developed the cardiac pacemaker in 1926. The original device was portable and consisted of two poles, one of which was connected to a salt solution-soaked skin pad, while the other pole was attached to a needle that was inserted into a patient’s heart chamber. With this device, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...intelligently as the sole American, in the familiar Bowery figures, the blue policemen, the varying darky types, which peopled a scene largely laid in Africa. The local New York suggestions were often from Mr. Edward Harrigan, and all the more genuine for that, but there was a final cake-walk which owed its inspiration wholly to the genius of a race destined to greater...
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Article 10 mins
The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...him or he is thinking about us. Maybe both. It will be, however, easier to recognize that the age of empathy that was anticipated by the great ethologist Frans de Waal has finally arrived. Meanwhile top cat scientists are still trying to determine if we are intelligent or not… This article was originally published at Lunatic Laboratories under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...intelligence helps order our world, but in modern adaptations it has become a curse or pathology. Not everyone can be Holmes, but in his monstrous contemporary form surely hardly anyone would want to be Holmes. In asking why Holmes continues to appeal, maybe it is a mistake to focus on Sherlock himself. It is not so much Holmes’s intellect that changes, but how others...
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
History & The Arts

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

...intelligence service, Dragutin Dimitrijević (also known as Apis), and members of the ‘Black Hand’ were behind the assassination just as they had been behind the unsuccessful attempt to kill Kaiser Franz Joseph in 1910. The would-be assassins were trained in the use of weapons in Belgrade and equipped with four revolvers and six small bombs from the Serbian state...
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