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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...Change in Facebook likes during the campaign Table 1 shows the dramatic growth in Facebook likes for Jeremy Corbyn, up by more than 35%, and the Labour Party, up 71%, during the short campaign. This is despite a strong starting position at the beginning of the campaign. While there was growth for all the parties and leaders, it is notable that the performance of Labour...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...changes in trend. Economic models are vital diagnostic tools that improve our ability to spot emerging patterns and understand general economic tendencies. By ignoring this and allowing their own expertise to be mischaracterised as divining the future with precision, economists unwittingly contributed to contemporary cynicism about the role of experts. As one forecast...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...changed tactics – no longer holding ground at all costs, and adopting the ‘Hindenburg Line’ (September 1916), so conceding much territory in order to shorten the front. The effect of this was to push back the positions from which its Spring Offensive was launched in 1918, and this contributed to its failure. Crucially, the military losses sustained at the Somme...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...change your automated algorithm by joining groups and commenting on articles that you disagree with, or you could decide to manually look for corroborating information from multiple sources, such as by checking particularly serious claims against multiple newspapers. The way that social media works has transformed how political campaigning systematically targets...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...change in your social and the physical environment. You’ve got clean air, you’ve got these beautiful views and so on. As a psychologist we would probably try and find a way of teasing out the variables. I can think of a study where people were comparing two hospital wards, one of which looked out on to a man-made environment the other one which looked out on to...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...change the way you view the world. Extremely accessible. Burton et al., Chemical Storylines, G. Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1994 ISBN 0 435 63106 3. Part of the Salters Advanced Chemistry course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and...
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...change this. ...Find out more about The Open University’s history courses. [Ladies of Llangollen]Eleanor Charlotte Butler and Sarah Ponsonby ran away from Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriage. They arrived in Llangollen in 1778 and settled there as a couple, becoming famous throughout Europe as the 'Ladies of Llangollen'. Painting by J.H....
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...change, but the plants remain. Over the last 150 years traditional descriptions of the ways in which plants work as medicines have been supplemented with biochemical analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex...
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