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The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...work its way through the global economic system and Brexiters claim markets will soon adjust to this new normal. But this is magical thinking. Brexit has opened up a pandora’s box of uncertainty. It is likely to take months if not years to work through it. But there is a greater danger that falls triggered by Brexit will connect with other underlying economic problems....
Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...worked to support the Irish Republican Brotherhood and published much poetry to promote the cause of radical nationalism. In the 1880s Ellen and John played a key role in the development of the Irish literary revival. Key to the revival was a desire to draw on the folklore and mythology of Ireland’s past to affirm national pride and create a fresh strand in Irish...
The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...work?...[Digital illustration of red and white blood cells] Leukocytes (often called %u2018white blood cells%u2019) are different to red blood cells, as portrayed by this computerised graphic The human immune system is an extremely complex network of interacting cells and biological molecules. Once our body’s barriers to infection have been breached the active agents of...
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...working as a farm labourer while performing at local socials, picnics and dances (Santelli, 1994); Huddie Ledbetter aka Lead Belly (1888–1949, pictured right), a black songster from Louisiana who served two jail sentences for murder and aggravated assault (Santelli, 1994); Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), a white Oklahoman and ‘fellow traveller’ of the Communist Party,...
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...work, and the things we control. These connections enable people to concurrently engage with a multitude of different people, places and things, with people becoming digitally everpresent. Each individual will have a unique global digital identity containing dynamically adjustable privacy-transparency settings. These settings can be adjusted depending upon the level of...
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...work with situations where a quantity is continuously changing and its rate of change isn’t necessarily constant. As a simple example, imagine a man walking along a straight path, as shown in Figure 1. His displacement from his starting point changes continuously as he walks. The rate of change of displacement is called velocity. [Described image] Figure 1 A man’s...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...working-class people - lived in grossly overcrowded 'single-ends' or 'rooms-and-kitchens' - that is, single-roomed or two-room small tenement houses, most with outside toilets. Within the city the sheer scale of the public health problems associated with such over-crowding forced the Corporation to take on more and more municipal powers fired by a Presbyterian zeal that...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...work, the effect that our genetic make-up has on health, and how genetic material is passed on from generation to generation...Genes are units of inheritance that contribute to a person's behaviour and health. In this free course, Inheritance of characters, you will learn what genes, DNA and chromosomes are and how they combine to make the human genome. You will also...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs