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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...cast asunder from an American commitment that has been resolute, indeed iron-clad, since 1945. Not surprisingly, that same Pew poll of Europeans revealed that 85% of those surveyed expressed a lack of confidence in Trump as President. It therefore isn’t surprising that many European leaders yearn for Clinton’s election. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General,...
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Article 10 mins
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...cast-iron columns and glass roof was likened to a railway station and spawned imitators around the world. The London Science Museum has its roots in the Great Exhibition of 1851 when international displays of technology became popular as trade fairs and promotional displays. Increasingly recast as educational institutions, instructing the observer while at the same time...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...Sands Desert, Oman, Middle East Deserts have a unique climate, with characteristic organisms. In such an extreme environment, organisms will develop their own ‘niches’. A niche encompasses the role of an organism in a particular ecosystem, the habitat, how it eats, what it eats, and its predators. There may be empty niches in a habitat. An invader may take over a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...casts doubt on the functioning of the democratic parliamentary process and its ability to provide fair representation and protection of the interests of the British public. A central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust perspective we can distinguish between competence based...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...cheap housing and do it up to their own tastes, leaving in their wake a revitalised neighborhood of particular production and consumption patterns - the cappuccino café society - of a bourgeois bohemia. For others, gentrification is cast as the best way to revitalise inner cities, even if this causes the wholesale displacement of long established poorer communities....
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Article 10 mins
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...sands. Monazite is a phosphate mineral rich in both rare earths and thorium although the thorium frequently is of such low commercial value that it is not processed to metal but rather left in the form of a thorium rich residue of the rare earth processes. Nuclear physics considerations, including decay half-life, suggest that the world should see thorium in quantities...
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Article 10 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...sanding and painting benches, digging a path and gardening. You can find out more about volunteering in this badged free course, Introducing the Voluntary Sector. Like most of the UK, the OpenLearn team are BIG fans of The Great British Bake Off and we have an interactive on the language and culture of baking throughout Europe. Baklava, anyone? We’re potty about Harry...
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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...sand and done absolutely nothing since being appointed in 2010. Yes a country has to “live within its means”. But that is not reflected in the budget deficit, but in the the balance of payments deficit, which shows whether the country spends more than it earns. And the UK does spend more than it earns. The balance of payments deficit (on current account) widened to...
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