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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...education, to lift and encourage people out of disadvantage and poverty. It would be fitting if we could draw on his work across the curricula to show how scientific and cultural discussion can identify the source, and help us find the solutions for social problems – some of which he would be gravely concerned to see continuing from the twentieth into the twenty-first...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...Open University's Language courses and qualifications. Hip Hop Hip hop is a Black radical knowledge movement that emerged in post-industrial urban North America in the 1970s and that has now become a global phenomenon and source of cultural inspiration for marginalised youth from around the world. The term ‘hip hop’ was coined in the late 1970s, possibly in the South...
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5 things you need to know about sepsis
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 things you need to know about sepsis

...concentrating or sleeping. Friends, relatives and carers may also have worries. Some people may have life-changing physical after-effects, such as Stella whose story is shown in the video There are resources and organisations that offer support for those who have experienced sepsis. The UK Sepsis Trust website Recovery After Sepsis brochure Like this? Try a FREE course...
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Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...resources that many research institutions experience. In fact, in the last decade, there have been substantial improvements in investigative capacities and indicators in the majority of countries in the region. Almost all of Latin America has increased its scientific production year after year. Brazil, for example, leads the region in the raw numbers, both in the size of...
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Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...resourcefulness are core to these clinics, says Zaher Sahloul, SAMS senior advisor, in this interview. For example, with many power plants bombed out, Syrian hospitals must often rely on diesel-fed generators. But in areas under siege, diesel is unavailable so medical clinics have been testing ways of running generators on methane from animal waste. Meanwhile, satellite...
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Fracking: No need for all the fuss
Science, Maths & Technology

Fracking: No need for all the fuss

...resources would be a reduction in global population coupled with more efficient, and environmental friendly, energy usage. In the meantime, we in the UK face a national problem. We rely on gas for a lot of our energy. It’s cleaner than coal, but we’re running out. I’m very uneasy about relying on Russia and other eastern nations to supply a major fraction of our...
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Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...resources to double-check the output from an LLM. Use internet search engines, Wikipedia, and subject-specific sites to confirm (or deny) what the LLM has told you. 4: LLMs learn from you Many LLMs use the information entered by users to improve their performance. This data is impossible to recall, so be very careful about providing personal or sensitive information to an...
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Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...Figure 15: East Anglian Salt Marshes, Environment Agency; Figure 16: (c) Popperfoto; Figure 19: Essex Wildlife Trust; Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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