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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...social media. You might be using the internet to undertake household tasks like shopping or banking or arranging for your central heating to be serviced. You might stream music or a movie, or watch catch-up TV. And of course, if you’re an OU student you'll be using the internet for your studies! But even in the case of people who don't have any of that technology –...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...social impact. It is also an excellent example of how our global challenges are often inextricably linked. Grist reported that the trends for climate anxiety searches rose by more than 565% between 2020 and 2021 compared to the 16 years before. In May 2022, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote about a large-scale study into the topic, in which climate anxiety is identified as...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment. Crafts and Harley formulated their revision of rapid, large-scale industrial...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...social upheaval it’s been through, to turn around and see that was brilliant. ‘The now is ours too’ [Children holding hands in Butetown Carnival parade] With regeneration, thousands of new houses surround Butetown. However, some parts of the development have been there for 30 years now. I was walking past the Wales Millennium Centre with my granddaughter, who was...
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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...social security policy (which remains the responsibility of the UK Government). I also paid tribute to my party’s other peer, Lord Wigley, and set out some of the principles that will guide me in my work as a member of the House of Lords. My speech was about ten minutes long, and I was congratulated after it by other members in the Chamber, including Lord Wigley and the...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...social contract, consenting to be governed in return for the guaranteed protection of their rights. Which all sounds rather promising. You can hear the voice of Locke when you listen to the words of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776): ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Social Sciences courses and qualifications Differences There are some important differences between policing in the US and the UK (referring to England and Wales exclusively as they have a particular legislative and governance context). There are some stark differences in the prevalence of guns/firearms among the general public, the number of police killed in the line of...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...social, physical help, financial support – only you will know what you might need. If you have already asked for help and it was not what you wanted, I would encourage you to try something else, even if it seems quite risky to be vulnerable. For example, after my daughter turned one year old (after my maternity leave had finished), I struggled to physically go to work...
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