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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...University's Science courses and qualifications. [Fine specimen of a real antique Morse code telegraph machine.] An antique Morse code telegraph machine The word 'telegram' may conjure up the image of a frayed yellowing document, containing a message about a now distant historical event, something with little connection to today's world. However, many of the myriad ways...
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Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?
History & The Arts

Henry Tudor: a Welsh hero…?

...University discussed on BBC Radio Wales about the installation of the statue of Henry VII at his birthplace of Pembroke, and what it means to his ambiguous reputation in Wales today.​...The installation of a statue of Henry VII in front of Pembroke Castle, where the future king was born, could be seen as an act of national sentiment. Surprisingly, however, this monument...
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Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...let’s say Mercedes Benz has. So everything about the message being sent out was wrong. So people just didn’t buy Rover cars because the product didn’t reflect what they thought it was, which is why Rover went bankrupt. 3’50” Get your marketing right Get your message clear with The Open University's course An introduction to retail management and marketing...
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A ydych wedi ymddieithrio oddi wrth eich teulu ac yn ystyried mynd i’r brifysgol?
Education & Development

A ydych wedi ymddieithrio oddi wrth eich teulu ac yn ystyried mynd i’r brifysgol?

...er mwyn trefnu’r cymorth iawn ar eich cyfer. Bydd eich gwybodaeth yn gyfrinachol – yr unig rai y byddwn yn rhannu’r wybodaeth â nhw fydd pobl eraill yn eich prifysgol y rhoddwch ganiatâd inni roi gwybod iddynt. [university ready - white back ] Mae'r adnodd hwn yn rhan o'r hwb Barod ar gyfer Prifysgol. Gallwch ddod o hyd i fwy o adnoddau fel hyn ar hafan yr hwb....
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Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?

...University of California, Irvine, are quite surprising. The researchers found that people who developed high blood pressure between the ages of 80-89 are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia) over the next three years than people of the same age with normal blood pressure. Blood pressure is an approximate measure of how hard the...
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The language used during end of life care matters
Health, Sports & Psychology

The language used during end of life care matters

...University, Dr Erica Borgstrom...[Grandma's hands] A male born in 2014 to 2016 has a 21% chance, and a female a 32% chance, of surviving to at least age 90 “She’s poorly” – that’s a phrase I hear a lot in my research about palliative and end of life care. But what does that mean? It took me a while in my fieldwork in hospitals, hospices and care homes in England...
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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...University explores whether we offer young writers enough opportunities for ‘writing from the heart’...Our Teachers as Writers research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that writers draw on their...
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Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...the OPAL national soil and earthworm survey. Support those who are working to improve soils situation, such as the Soil Association. Open University courses Neighbourhood nature [Free version] Environment: journeys through a changing world Other links BBC One - Life British Society for Soil Science International Union of Soil Sciences European Union Soil Thematic Strategy...
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