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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...resources as advertising declines and the need to invest in more and more digital platforms erodes the core mission. In this climate, short cuts can seem attractive. Rules for news We now live in a highly complex media environment – fed by algorithms, gamed by political or commercial interests, favouring sensation over authority, showcasing opinion over fact. Very few...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...resources' for guidance on using the HestiaVis map and texts. Now use the ORBIS platform at Stanford to explore the time and cost of a journey from Athens to Egypt (Aegyptus), stopping in Cyprus, and on to Sardis. Although this project provides a model of the Roman world, the results are compatible with the earlier period. Compare your results with a similar journey...
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Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...resources to preventing, controlling, and treating norovirus? Just counting the number of norovirus cases, the deaths, or the number of hospitalizations caused by norovirus doesn’t tell the whole story. Better understanding the economic impact of norovirus begins to give you a better view. Diseases do not have to be deadly or last long in a patient to have substantial...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...resources of the company either in people or in funds. Conclusion The changed texture of the environment was not recognised by an able but traditional management until it was too late. They failed entirely to appreciate that a number of outside events were becoming connected with each other in a way that was leading up to irreversible general change. Their first reaction...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?

...waste: Transcript What will the oceans look like in another 50 years? That all depends on the actions we take right now. References UN (2017) Factsheet: People and Oceans [Online]. Available at https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf (Accessed 2019). Like oceans? Take it further Free resources: Free courses:...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail market. Second, where an older person’s social network is variable they may need support from nonfamilial carers. For some ‘living at home’ can be central to maintaining levels of autonomy which may have to be delegated to someone else whether in a personal home or by moving to a care home. Here, the...
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Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...Open University’s Classical Studies courses and qualifications....Herodotus and the invention of history: Introduction - With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a similar challenge when he set out to...
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...education and higher learning in universities across Europe and beyond. Persian provides another example: after Iran fell to the Arab invasion, Persian became the language of the army that spread Islam into Central and South East Asia, and was then taken up by Turks, Mongols and, in fact, all Muslim rulers of the region as the administrative language of their realms....
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