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Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...based industrial past overlooks another important and continuing aspect of its cultural heritage. For in the 1960s, while the number of potbanks was declining daily, the city also boasted twelve flourishing Spiritualist churches. The earliest written evidence of Spiritualism in Stoke-on-Trent is from a newspaper article in the Staffordshire Daily Sentinel in 1873. Since...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...de plume of the winning bard. Nobody knows the true identity of the poet until the archdruid asks them to stand. Before enlisting, Hedd Wyn had started working on an awdl for the chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Due to the war, the Eisteddfod that year was held in England, in Birkenhead near Liverpool. Hedd Wyn had almost won the chair the previous year in...
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Isothermal precision forging
Science, Maths & Technology

Isothermal precision forging

...based alloy. Die wear is minimised by optimisation of isothermal forging temperature. Forging loads are less than conventional forging (titanium alloy: conventional 500–1200 N mm-2, isothermal 80–120 N mm-2). Forging and die costs are higher than for conventional forging, but the savings in material and machining costs can lead to 20% overall cost saving for the...
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...based ePortfolios can address these challenges through the development of an open, decentralised, peer-to-peer platform, in which control of and responsibility for this information flow is radically disintermediated, away from educational institutions to students and teachers. This will be achieved by using blockchain-based distributed ledgers, a technology that enables...
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Design Behind the Bike
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Behind the Bike

...looks at what influences the designer and the consumer. The films form part of the Open University Course T317 and T174... History History of the Bike and the Tour de France Aesthetics The significance of aesthetics Wheels The history, design and evolution of the wheel Materials Titanium , carbon fibre and the resurgence of steel Frame Design Design through the Years...
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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...based profession and is subject to interventions from politicians, based on ideology rather than on evidence. Ben Goldacre (2013) argues that teaching should be an evidence-based profession and that this would lead to better outcomes for children. In particular, he suggests that: a change in culture is needed, in which teachers and politicians recognise that we don’t...
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Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...based sanctions to prevent them. Technology-based sanctions In 2006 – following North Korea’s first nuclear test – the U.N. Security Council prohibited the “supply, sale or transfer” of “items, materials, equipment, goods and technology” that could contribute to the country’s missile program. Efforts to prevent North Korea’s acquisition of missile...
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What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?
Money & Business

What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?

...based approach, with little or no discretion. Economic data would be plugged into a simple model, which would spit out the decision the Fed should take. Since the model would be well-known and the relevant economic data (such as GDP, inflation rates, etc.) are already widely publicized, everyone from Wall Street to Main Street who cares about interest rates would be able...
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