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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...LEARN MORE: • Read our interview with science integrity expert Dr Elisabeth Bik, where she shares her experiences and concerns around the fake news and fake research around COVID-19. Click here. • Wondering how experts conduct research and modelling of COVID-19? We have another interview with statistician Dr Sayantan Banerjee, who explains in more mathematical terms,...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...learning and founded many schools, especially on the frontier. School professor and Scots-Irishman William Holmes McGuffey is credited with the production of America’s first school primer which became available in most American schools in the later nineteenth century. Who was William Holmes McGuffey? [Photograph of William Holmes McGuffey.] William Holmes McGuffey...
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...learned societies, health and social care authorities, academic publications, Research Ethics Committees and research organisations provide a range of ethical guidance and resources. International codes such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpin ethical frameworks (United Nations, 1948). You may be aware of key legislation in your own country or the...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...learning about this example, you may be interested in studying The Open University’s Human Geography modules DD205, ‘Living in a Globalised World’, or DU311, ‘Earth in Crisis’. In DD205 we examine a case with many similarities to seed banking: the bioprospecting work done by pharmaceuticals companies who collect and study biological materials from rainforests in...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...learning at school that Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. Conclusion: Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. Unlike the disagreements about tennis and aliens, there is an objective, empirical yardstick here by which the truth can be measured. My argument isn’t obviously bad: Auckland perhaps is the most famous city in New Zealand, and a country’s capital...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...Learn about how to monitor and track cloud provider carbon emissions. Either using the provider’s own dashboards, or others such as the open source project Cloud Carbon Footprint or other third party options like GreenPixie. Regularly review and enact the data deletion steps of data retention policies. Look for opportunities to store data locally or using edge compute...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of Black feminist thought’, Social Problems, 33(6), S14–S32. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/800672. Green, M. (2025) ‘Narrating self, narrating us: autoethnography in Black women's storytelling’, British Educational Research Association. Available at:
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...learning and can become a better person.” But I'm crushed [to hear about your death]. Thank you very much for all that you have, and I pass on my love and sincere appreciation. A popular illustrator shared his own thoughts about Mizuki's passing with his Twitter followers: 水木しげるさんの話で印象に残っている話がありました。戦争中真っ暗な...
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