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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...resources for resilience in traditional environmental and cultural knowledges. Ceremonies contribute significantly here because they express and encourage celebration of and gratitude to the larger-than-human community. In turn, this strengthens efforts to protect, preserve and promote healthy ecologies and relations. The dramatic and colourful totem Latamat portrays and...
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...resources and support. England’s success hasn’t come easy: it’s the product of years of grit, resilience and bold investment. If women’s rugby is to grow globally, England’s blueprint may be a powerful place to start.[The Conversation] And what better way to start than as Women’s Rugby World Cup Champions in 2025! This article is republished from The...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...resources into creating the world’s largest, widest, and (bar the much smaller Concorde) most technically advanced airliner, and doing so in a very complex market. Boeing’s competitors were also developing slightly smaller wide-body aircraft – defined as having two aisles or a cabin wider than 200 inches – that launched within two years of the 747’s 1969 debut....
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...resources below... Change your diet One of the best ways to help the environment is to reduce your intake of meat and dairy products. A person eating a 75g beef burger once a day, over the course of a year, will contribute 2,820kg of greenhouse gas emissions from these burgers alone. To put that into perspective, that is the equivalent of taking 8 return flights to Malaga...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...Resource (2021) The 1000 Genomes Project. Available at: https://www.internationalgenome.org/ (Accessed: 25 April 2022). Leslie, S., Winney, B., Hellenthal, G. et al. (2015) ‘The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population’, Nature 519, pp. 309–314. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14230 Randall, (2010) ‘Colour Survey results’ xkcd The blag...
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Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why friendships are vital to your wellbeing

...resource that can sustain us through difficult times as well as bringing us happiness in our daily lives. References Allan, G. (2011) ‘Commentary: friendships and emotions.’ Sociological Research Online 16, 1, 15. www.socresonline.org.uk/16/1/15.html. Cacioppo, J., and Cacioppo, S. (2014) ‘Social Relationships and Health: The Toxic Effects of Perceived Social...
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Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...resources, they also support the free online courses An introduction to social work, in which you can read more about working with individuals and the importance of biography, and An introduction to social work in Wales, in which you will learn about the importance of the Welsh context and its impact on social work in Wales...Perspectives on social work: Individual...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...opened the piece with, about whether Wellington or Auckland is the capital of New Zealand. Perhaps this was my reason for thinking that Auckland is the capital: My Argument Premise: Auckland is the most famous city in New Zealand. Conclusion: Auckland is the capital of New Zealand. And perhaps this was your reason for thinking that Wellington is the capital: Your Argument...
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