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Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace

...open the activity. [Activity banner with link to interactive activity - ceasefire tapes] Activity transcript Photo gallery - the faces of “Impossible Peace” @@PLUGINFILE@@/Impossible%20Peace%20-%20photo%20gallery.h5p?time=1722870943065 [Click to download the full version of "Impossible Peace"] Acknowledgements All photographs by Marie Therese Hurson, Stills...
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9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...course of the day they handled in excess of 400 million calls as people in America, and all over the world tried to contact friends and family in New York. This collection gives a snapshot of how the communications company dealt with the unprecedented technological challenges by using techniques such as call gapping to help free up other services... The AT and T Network...
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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...course, but at one place there was a large building brilliantly lighted, which from certain effects at the windows we decided to be a printing-office on the scale of those in and near our own Boston. What was our shame and grief the next morning to find it was a cigar factory, and to learn that cigar and cigarette making was almost the chief industry of the mother Boston....
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Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...course, the languages involved play an essential role in this situation: how will refugees learn the new language and how long will it take them? How much, and in which contexts, will they use both their native language and the new language they will have to learn in their asylum country? What will be the impact of this situation on the linguistic habits of the second and...
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Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...Open University. Thank you for reading my first article here on OpenLearn. I’m part of a team of British and French scientists with a new study published in Nature about Antarctic ice sheet instability. Here is a Guardian article I wrote as an introduction to our work. I also recorded a video explaining our focus on Antarctica and the uncertainty surrounding the impact...
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Video 10 mins
60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...Open University's Science courses. Why do astronauts float on the space station? Contrary to popular belief, it isn't because there's no gravity. The gravitational pull of the Earth is almost as strong in the orbit of the International Space Station as it is on you as you read this. Astronauts are experiencing weightlessness because they are in a microgravity environment....
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Video 10 mins
PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...Open University's Rules of the Game...This article is adapted from The Rules Of The Game, a BBC/Open University co-production from 2002. As such, some topical references might have dated. We're leaving the article here for historical context. See our latest content about football [PY with a football] A football team is not like other businesses – it can never be in a...
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Article 15 mins
Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to...
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