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English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
History & The Arts

English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation

...fictional deceivers and self-deceivers so that he pretended to be reformed? Moreover, when we remember the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, whose past pronouncements about Black and Muslim British citizens have been condemned, and who allegedly missed important COBRA meetings at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because he was writing a book about Shakespeare, it is...
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Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...fiction or science fact? Overview In this article you will discover that: many organisms need a protein to transport oxygen through the blood these proteins are metalloproteins - they contain a transition metal ion the transition metal ion must be able to be oxidised and reduced as it binds and releases oxygen these different oxidation states lead to different colours and...
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The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone
Society, Politics & Law

The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone

...fictional firm in New York, the TV series Suits glamorises the life of lawyers working in a modern corporate firm. One of the main characters, Harvey Specter, dresses impeccably in an expensive designer suit and expects others around him to do the same. The lawyers in the firm are hugely ambitious, work late into the night (we rarely see them away from the office) and...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...fiction: there is a move from larger-than-life castles to the familiar everyday domestic settings that readers can identify with. The settings and action of these stories may feel more plausible, closer to home, but they lose none of their ability to frighten or unsettle. [Title page from Irish Fairy Tales]Title page from Irish Fairy Tales - Wikimedia Commons The Irish...
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Live long and prosper?
Science, Maths & Technology

Live long and prosper?

...fiction, yet today astronomers know of many hundreds of these so-called Exoplanets. They have been detected using a variety of ingenious techniques, including measuring the ‘wobble’ of the parent star as it is tugged to and fro by the orbiting planet, and measuring the ‘wink’ in the star’s light output as the planet passes in front of it. It’s now clear that...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...fiction is landed money. W.H. Auden famously remarked of her fiction: ‘It makes me most uncomfortable to see/An English spinster of the middle-class/Describe the amorous effects of “brass”.’ Darcy’s worth is explicitly set at £10,000 a year, and, whatever else Pride and Prejudice may be about, it is about money, its desirability, and the way of life that...
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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...learning resources...​...Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree qualifications. ABOUT OPENLEARN OpenLearn was born in 2006, the same year Bernard Matthews discontinued Turkey Twizzlers (thanks for that, Jamie Oliver) and Pluto got declassed as a planet. We’ve had more than 85 million visitors to OpenLearn since 2006. That’s more than the population of...
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How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?
History & The Arts

How did a Scottish golf club shape how we remember the First World War?

...fictional accounts. Part of the hospital’s plans to restore traumatised British officers to health was to put these men to work in the professions they knew. For Owen, this would include teaching English at Tynecastle High School, returning him to the reassuring rhythms of work routines. Capital interest This sparked my interest to find out more about Owen’s time in...
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