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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...course, there are still plenty of people making calls, putting up (and sometimes tearing down) yard signs, trying to mobilise the vote for their preferred national and local candidates. There may even by a few people who actually still pay attention to the endless stream of relentlessly derogatory ads coming from both camps. This jaw-droppingly sad exercise in...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...course. The American Petroleum Institute and other industry organizations have lobbied hard to rescind or modify the new offshore drilling regulations, calling them impractical and burdensome. In April 2017, Trump’s Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, appointed Louisiana politician Scott Angelle to lead BSEE. Unlike his predecessors – two retired Coast Guard admirals –...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...to link the various subject areas. As part of your study you will learn to navigate an innovative and interactive module website; the perfect way to gain the study skills you’ll need to succeed in the next step in your studies. You might be interested in exploring this related free OpenLearn course: The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK. Find out more:...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where...
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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...course, if you win, that means you will have a direct say in what happens in your local area or, indeed, right across Wales. [6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales headers] You could run for election locally – for example, in community or county council elections – or nationally – for example, in Senedd elections. The next scheduled local elections will be in...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in polarising categories. On the one hand, we find the glorified hype of the Web 2.0. version of the university: the digital classrooms of the...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Observed: Mass Observation and the Beveridge Report' by J. Jacobs, from Beveridge 1942- 1992: Papers to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Beveridge Report edited by J Jacobs, J, Whiting and Birch Books About this extract This article is adapted from the study material from the Open University course Understanding Health & Social Care. Read articles on personal finance...
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