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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...work in as a poet. Given this, we might expect her to be quite sceptical about translations of her work. Listen now to the first part where Angus Calder asks what has been lost in Paul Muldoon’s English translation of ‘Ceist ne Teangan’. Is there anything that strikes you as interesting about what Ní Dhomhnaill has to say here? Transcript Show Ní Dhomhnaill is...
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How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...working the tall-stack riverboats between Cincinnati and New Orleans: ‘Oh! Susanna’, ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Swanee River’, ‘Old Black Joe’ etc. Jessie returned home to Swansea in 1866 after the end of the American Civil War. She was aged 74 when The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of freed slaves, arrived in town for their first performance at the Craddock...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...work as medicines have been supplemented with biochemical analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...work and what makes it beat? Your heart is a fascinating muscle: It keeps contracting regularly throughout your lifetime, on average 2 billion times, without a rest. This organ ensures that blood is pumped efficiently through the body to provide it with oxygen, whilst removing waste products. To do this, two circular routes of blood flow start from the heart: blood with a...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...working as a commercial pilot can be an extremely demanding job due to the many stressors – high workload, heavy responsibilities, time pressures, fatigue, noise, and temperature – experienced while transporting thousands of passengers/cargo round the world. Dismukes, Goldsmith and Kochan (2015) outline the stressful situations pilots are exposed to: Emergencies and...
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Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...works of art...In this free course, Napoleonic paintings, we will examine a range of Napoleonic imagery by David, Gros and a number of other artists, beginning with comparatively simple single-figure portraits and moving on to elaborate narrative compositions, such as Jaffa and Eylau. In so doing, we will have three main aims: to develop your skills of visual analysis; to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...works in a scientific sense, and that a scientific view is necessary for us to study how performance in sport is linked to performance of the body explain the function of the heart briefly and looks at the importance of healthy hearts in sport, by looking at athletes and efficient hearts understand the topics of blood and blood flow understand the role of oxygen and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...working with people to change behaviours, attitudes and values, whilst managers are more likely to maintain the performance of people and systems. However, from an academic perspective, educational leadership and management remain as contested concepts! Activity 1: Leadership and management Timing: Allow approximately 30 minutes Consider the ‘leadership and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs