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Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...surface. Another aspect of our work is to use knowledge of life in extreme environments on Earth to learn how to protect Europa from contamination from future spacecraft. Within a decade, a treasure trove of new data will emerge from Europa, but it’s only through the work we do here on Earth that we can turn this data into understanding of Europa’s potential for life....
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...work behind the scenes of our everyday lives; and the field was going to take a giant leap forward by returning to a maligned technology from the past. From the mid-1980s onwards perceptrons, unfairly dismissed as another discredited technology, began to make a comeback as the building blocks for artificial neural networks - a technology inspired by the structure of...
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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...works from 1957 to 1967 illustrate how King’s political thought evolved from a hopeful reformer to a radical critic. King’s support for white moderates For much of the 1950s, King believed that white southern ministers could provide moral leadership. He thought the white racists of the South could be countered by the ministers who took a stand for equality. At the...
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Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...work, 42-year-old black seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She went to the back and took a seat in the section designated for black ('coloured') people. Rosa’s subsequent refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, as demanded by the white bus driver, resulted in her being arrested, tried and convicted for civil disobedience. That was...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...worked on with colleagues at The Open University looking at mental health declarations for Black students. Transcript How we can teach children about race and why it’s important that we do Mel Green’s presentation explores how children and young people learn about constructions of race and racism from early socialisation. She discusses ways that adults can approach...
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...work, the co-authored text History of a Six Weeks Tour (published 1817), described some of their travels. [Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816.] Manuscript page from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1816. In February 1815 Mary gave birth to Clara, who lived for only twelve days. Her journal shows that she was haunted by the sense that the death might have...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...work in Ireland steady at 4.6pc. Irish Independent. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/numbers-out-of-work-in-ireland-steady-at-46pc/a1041009132.html Moloney, A. (2026, February 8). Health service ‘bleeding expertise’ as nearly 7,000 Irish medics register in Australia. Irish Independent.
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...working with picks and shovels to dig a grave that measures approximately 7ft x 3ft x 6ft deep. This takes them between two and five hours to do, depending on the ground conditions and whether it is an old or new grave. If it is an old grave, it will be easier to dig but will be a more complex and sensitive job as human remains are put to one side to be reinterred later....
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