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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...children. To the side there’s a small altar with a little figure of Buddha on top and several brass water bowls below, part of a Buddhist ritual to ward off negativity. I fail to find any immediate positives in this example of palliative care in action. Tumurbat struggles even to answer questions from Odontuya and her colleague Dr Solongo Surinaa. “All I want is to be...
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Article 15 mins
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...researchers refer to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, they tell their readers how to find the passage they are referring to by way of a numbering system which gives the number of the book followed by a full stop, then the number of the lines. For instance, in this activity, you are asked to read the first four lines of book 1, which is referenced as ‘1.1–4’. The line numbers...
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The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...research has shown that it is often vital to making decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein suggest that intuitive expertise can only develop in environments in which there are stable relationships between identifiable cues and events. Cues in football could be relative team rankings and events could be wins or losses. Cues in civil...
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Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...research provide examples of dual identities: Flag — St Georges cross with Sunderland badge. Clothes — I have a polo shirt with both Sunderland and England badges on it. I have a ten-by-five-foot St George cross with ‘COLCHESTER UNITED’ across the middle that I take to games. St Georges Cross Flag showing Foxham — where I live — and Swindon Town — my team....
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...Researcher in Electronic Imaging at The Open University, explains more...Space may seem calm, but it is a more hostile environment than that on Earth. Invisible radiation is a big problem for space enthusiasts and scientific instruments. Substituting electronic devices to do human tasks reduces risk, but it doesn’t eliminate all risk. Every active device in space is...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...research at Emojipedia, emojis have never been more popular on social media than they are today, even though certain emojis appear to have passed the peak of their popularity (😂 Face with Tears of Joy, specifically). PS: Yes, it’s worth thinking of emojis as specifically being a form of writing. They’re digital writing, but with antecedents in handwriting and...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...Research Associate in the Faculty of Science, explains more about ‘iron from the sky’...[Stone statue of the Pharaohs in Giza ] The relationship between meteorites and ancient Egyptian culture may not be immediately obvious, but for many years, Egyptologists speculated on the use of meteorites as an ancient source of iron. No Egyptian archaeological evidence exists of...
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In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...research with this article. Sources Parker, G. and Brunsden, J. (2020) ‘UK fishing industry caught between rock and hard place on trade talks’, Financial Times, December 1, 2020: https://www-ft-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/content/4f224474-4604-431a-9752-0e5cf00c67bd ‘SNP minister Michael Russell rules out using force in Scottish fishing waters if no-deal Brexit’:...
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