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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...world, with key provision they are free to access for all. Even park designs have evolved, from open spaces imitating countryside, to including features such as miniature woodlands, floral beds or ornamental lakes. Many of Milton Keynes’s parks have designed landscapes, such as Campbell Park in the city centre, which has recently been awarded Grade II Listed status by...
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Article 10 hrs 34 mins
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...world. It implies that the excluded writers can be ignored. So stark is the potential for unfair exclusion that it might reasonably amount to academic misconduct. It is worth noting here that citation sits alongside co-authorship in equitable approaches to undertaking research. An expansive concept of authorship includes more than the person who has penned words on a page...
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Article 20 mins
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...world around them, yet had a strong moral code and were able to resist the charms of the genre’s typical femme fatale (Nyman, 1997). Gallagher’s love for the genre started as a child through trips to the cinema with his brother Dónal, where The Maltese Falcon (a screen adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel about Detective Sam Spade’s search for a...
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Article 5 mins
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...world. On our first morning the sun, when it climbed to the upper heavens, found a little hole in the dun pall, and shone down through it, and tried to pierce through the more immediate cloud above the works; but it could not, and it ended by shutting the hole under it, and disappearing. Beyond the foul avenues thridding the region of the works, and smelling of the decay...
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Article 10 mins
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...world, including the Maya of Central America, Aboriginal tribes in Australia and the Myanmar Hill People, have used maggots to treat wounds. Much of the historical writing on the role of maggots in helping wounds heal revolves around battlefield injuries. Although such wounds can and do kill outright, the majority of deaths from war injuries have been caused by infection....
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Article 5 mins
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...world is a stage for today’s political leaders: GLENDA JACKSON Obama clearly struck a chord, not only in America, but around the world.I mean that was something that people had been wanting to hear for a very, very long time - the capacity, the ability to connect .And to connect with individuals, even though those individuals are standing in crowds of hundreds of...
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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...world have increased. To combat this many countries are recommending outdoor activity for all children. Physical play outdoors provides important opportunities for the development and refinement of locomotor skills as well as fine motor skill. Vigorous physical activity increases lung function, contributes to muscle, bone and joint health and strengthens the heart. It...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...world’s longest artificial waterway, the Grand Canal. British sea and waterborne forces now had the Chinese land-based empire by its throat. To understand why this was so, we need to understand how the Chinese empire worked; and to do this we need to look at empire as a ‘system of power’. In particular, we need to understand just how vital the Yangzi and Grand Canal...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr