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The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...become incorporated into the ice. Knowing this process has occurred (and is possibly still occurring) on Europa means scientists can find out more about the ocean’s likely composition by mimicking these water-rock interactions using computer modelling or laboratory simulation experiments. For example, researchers in AstrobiologyOU have used geochemical modelling to...
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A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter
Science, Maths & Technology

A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter

...become habitable? [Photograph of the surface of Europa. The grey-blue icy surface is criss-crossed with reddish cracks where the ice shell has b]Photograph of the surface of Europa. The grey-blue icy surface is criss-crossed with reddish cracks where the ice shell has been broken and re-formed. Grace: What interests me about the question of whether life could get started...
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The Life of Saint David
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint David

...to me returns to yourself with an increase which becomes my liberality and greatness.’ It is the divine grace,” goes on this holy doctor, “which first excites a man to praise God, and he only returns to God his own gift: yet by his continually blessing God, the Lord pours forth his divine blessings upon him, which are so many new increases of charity in his soul."...
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Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...become more flexible and inclusive, adopting new policies, or putting staff networks in place. In this article, you will first consider how setting up a mentoring or shadowing scheme can help to support women’s career development. You will then consider how you can better support parents and careers and those going through menopause and perimenopause. The power of...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...becoming an usher at the coronation of King George IV. His 2015 biography, ‘Richmond Unchained’, suggests that much of this astonishing journey was down to his special talent for boxing – in those days a brutal, bare-knuckled version of the sport hugely popular among all sections of British society including the aristocracy. That Thomas Pitt was a boxing enthusiast...
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Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...becomes an intimate experience and private music activities in the home turn into social music activities in a public space. How do online fandoms differ from the music fandoms of the past? Music fandoms have their origins in the mid-19th century when a cult of celebrity grew around figures like Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. However,...
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...become known. That disbandment of the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment would fit within a two-year plan to end Operation Banner, the Army’s decades-long support role to the police, and would be part of major changes to the security landscape and the making of a peace time garrison. I was told of lots of discussions going on involving the Northern...
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A difficult conversation to have about racism
Education & Development

A difficult conversation to have about racism

...becomes more difficult when my friends and I are targeted on a night out by the bouncers on the door. Or when I’m booking holidays on a scale of “how racist” the place is to visit. If you know, you know. I remember being on my way to Uni and experiencing the joys of St Pancras Station. A man was on his bike and just as I walked out of the ticket barrier, he nearly...
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