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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...being a parselmouth (a speaker of Parseltongue) appears to be hereditary, so no-one (not even Hermione!) in the Harry Potter series studies languages. Knowing that J.K. Rowling was a language teacher before she became a published writer, I wish at least one of the characters could have been a role model for language learning. Do what Hermione didn't - learn a language!...
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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
History & The Arts

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween

...to stand out from the crowd of mummies and vampires this October 31, you could do worse than dressing as one of these gruesome characters instead. About this article This article was written by Simon Rodway, Lecturer in Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...study corruption4 who are concerned that money allocated to climate projects may not always be spent in the way intended. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Transparency International5 and Oxfam6 share the concerns of activists such as the jailed Russian opposition campaigner, Alexei Navalny. Navalny wrote a letter from prison7 in August making the case that...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...studied for a BA in English and German at Trinity College, where she attended a creative writing group with Michael Longley. She has, to date, published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Found Architecture,...
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Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...Studying architectural history can help us understand where we have come from, and create a base for some lasting changes. Putting the Social into a History of Architecture Architectural historians write histories of buildings. History, though, changes as each generation asks new questions about the past. A social history of architecture emerged during the twentieth...
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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...studies, capturing data from 6,711 participants, to investigate the influence of portion, package and tableware size on food consumption. These results are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The data showed that people consistently consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware than when offered smaller-sized...
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Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...we as a society are becoming more willing to confront and challenge the harms that other animals experience. References Cole, M. (2014) ‘“The Greatest Cause on Earth”: The historical formation of veganism as an ethical practice’, in N. Taylor & R. Twine (eds) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre, London: Routledge, pp. 203–24....
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Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...studies. Open Justice provides opportunities for OU law students to engage with their communities in a variety of different ways including providing public legal education opportunities in schools, in prisons and in courts and through the delivery of free legal advice in our virtual law clinic. The Open Justice Centre has developed a range of projects that help people who...
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