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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...becomes empty and vain and we sink into apathy and cynicism.” Of course, when we think about voting it is not usual to think of it as related to self-respect. It is more often seen as a ‘device’ to choose representatives, parties or particular policies. Which of these depends on the type of vote and the voting system employed. Robert Dahl’s excellent book On...
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Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...become more sophisticated to incorporate information on the relationship of each person to the head of the household, as well as their name, age, gender, marital status, occupation and place of birth. Since the records contain such sensitive personal data, they are closed to public inspection for 100 years. This means that the most recent set of returns that can be viewed...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...becomes dangerous. When a headline suggests that one in five Muslims support violent Jihadis (they don’t), or that climate change is a myth (it isn’t), people who read these are affected – presence in even the least reputable newspaper implies a veneer of truth, so readers’ beliefs may change or be hardened, or readers may feel offended, or ostracised. And that is...
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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...become more ‘internal’ and take back control. Pick something that you are not happy with (it can be very small) and come up with a concrete plan of action on how you’re going to take control and tackle it. If there’s really nothing you can do to change the situation, consider how you could instead change your reaction to what’s happening. Don’t let other...
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Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...become spectacle; creative destruction presented as entertainment, played out on the media, on websites and in countless numbers of YouTube film clips. We can all join together in celebrating the removal of a blighted and failed urban past and, of course, in the bright new urban future to come. Bulldozing high-rise blocks, demolishing low-rise housing and clearing...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...become deranged. On Father’s Day in 2008, for example, a ”hostile, feral turkey” chased two cops onto their patrol car. A man who had raised the unfortunate Tom tried to help his pet when the officers shot and killed the terrorist turkey. Later, neighbors and a UPS delivery person corroborated the police view that Tom was indeed violent, and there was much concern...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...become a powerful resource for modern forensic science, and have even allowed old, unsolved cases to be reviewed with fresh evidence. When a person dies their DNA will begin to degrade, but this can take a long time. In fact, some tissues can provide DNA samples even after a body has been buried for some time. Bone and dental pulp, for example, are sometimes used as a...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...Becoming part of the established 'club' Most of the grassroots women’s teams are connected in some way to an existing men’s cricket club. People I spoke to from such clubs often referred to the difficulties that women’s teams faced integrating into the wider club that they were notionally part of. One County Development Officer, responsible for supporting several...
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