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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...World Meteorology Organisations, the occurrence of extreme climate events has increased by more than a factor of five in the last 50 years. In their 2021 report, they state that the number of reported climate disasters rose from 711 in the 1970s to 3,165 in the decade between 2010 and 2019. It is therefore perhaps not surprising that many more of us have become climate...
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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...world, limiting their sense of belonging, freedom and participation in public life. It is crucial that the police understand and address these outcomes wherever possible. A procedural justice approach is vital to ensure victims’ rights and interests are upheld, and experiences of citizenship are fostered. TI practice is only one way of promoting procedural justice for...
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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...world. It’s now become something of a catch-all insult for liberals generally, and is so widespread that The Guardian named it as the defining insult of 2016. As often happens with derogatory terms aimed at a particular community, there’s been a move to re-appropriate the word as a badge of pride by the very group it’s meant to vilify. In street demonstrations and...
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The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...world must have been unaware that these were originally Russian words, but Ukrainian transliterations and pronunciations of these geographical areas constitute a mark of respect. As Ukraine fights to unburden itself of this current and most damaging attempt at Russification (namely, annexation), the international use of Russian words to denote parts of their country must...
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The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018
Society, Politics & Law

The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018

...world celebrated with the women of Glasgow. Mags McCarthy looks at the background to their victory, a fight for equal pay that will continue to reverberate for years to come and be recorded in history as a great triumph for workers...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Context The 1970 Equal Pay Act prohibited less...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...world is mindfulness. Mindfulness is about moving away from our ‘automatic pilot’ approach (what we can also think of as our ‘doing mode’) and moving to more of a ‘being mode’. This is where we become more consciously aware of our thoughts, feelings and physical experiences or sensations, and potentially explore how we want to respond to these. While...
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The Life of Saint David
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint David

...world and all inordinate passions, monks are styled angels of the earth. The divine praise is the primary act of the love of God; for a soul enamoured of his adorable goodness and perfections, summons up all her powers to express the complacency she takes in his infinite greatness and bliss, and sounds forth his praises with all her strength. In this entertainment she...
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Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...world terms. You should now be able to: derive the pathlines and the streamlines in Cartesian and polar form from a velocity field derive the stream function from a velocity field model different flows from a combination of uniform flows, sources, sinks and doublets use the continuity equation to determine whether an inviscid flow is incompressible understand how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs