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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...think that running is popular because it has its feet in both camps of sport and exercise. It is a permissible public activity because of its associations with sport (unlike Zumba or Body Pump, for example). The industrial revolution has swept away most of our forests and green spaces, and in doing so changed completely our ways of working, leaving us desperately...
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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...think about purchasing, there is another aspect we must consider – what do we do with our technologies once we have finished using them? Discarded electronics products, known as eWaste, present their own environmental challenges. Finite resources A great deal of natural resources are required in the manufacture of electronic technology products, including water, gold,...
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On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...think that the best measure of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela as a political hero are the millions of South Africans who are celebrating his life and grieving his death. Mandela, (Madiba or Tata, the father of the nation), as leader of the African National Congress (ANC), together with COSATU, the trade union confederation, and the South African Communist Party, set the road...
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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...think the country owes a great debt to the ATG/EERU as pioneers in the field, which it will never even know about.” Click to view the Renewable Energy Resource Pack (1995) CALL OUT to OU Alumni, were you educated on our Renewable Energy Course, if so we would love to know whether you went onto working in renewables. We would also like to hear from you as we are hoping...
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...think about them in the different phases of the conflict and in the peace of this place. Some of them shouldered the heavy weights of change, while others made things difficult and, at times, impossible. We often talk about the different sides in conflict. There are also different sides in peace. And there are those whose voices will no longer be heard in the...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...thinking behind one aspect of her work. Joint winner of the Turner Prize in 2019, Cammock uses a variety of methods and materials – video, performance, photography – to explore the multitude of personal stories and people’s histories which are entwined together in the fabric of our culture. One of the techniques she uses is the ventriloquising of other people’s...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...think of Dickens as a ‘colonial’ writer and, while he lived through a period of aggressive colonial expansion and empire-building, his fictions are generally so distinctively metropolitan that empire often seems like a peripheral presence in them: the wings of a stage into which problematic characters depart never to be seen again, or from which they return, enriched...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...think of colours as distinct, and assign them different labels such as red, green and blue, we look at a colour palette to understand the continuity of colours, and the difficulty of assigning discrete labels. In other words, we do not deny that the people of South Africa would on average have much darker skin compared to the people of France. But we want to point out...
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