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The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...centre stage in the work of the seventeenth century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp, who made a speciality of winter landscapes, particularly skating scenes - you have to remember that the period from about 1550 to 1800 was what is known as the little ice age, when it was so cold that rivers often froze over. It was not just landscape painters who evoked winter in their...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...children's playground, and so on. Tim Jordan: And this is a very interesting piece, that that strand continues on into the kind of development of Silicone Valley just south of San Francisco, into the development of notions of network world and stuff - because a lot of the people who went back to the land, who went back to some of the communes then moved into networking...
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...children.] Despite all these issues, the World Religions model is still the standard approach in education – so much so, in fact, that it can seem difficult to think of different ways to begin teaching the subject. But the fact is, there are lots of alternatives! Here are just a few: Rather than teaching what members of so-called World Religions supposedly all...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...research and development (R&D). On the other side are developing countries, claiming their rights to buy or manufacture existing medicines at low prices to prevent diseases and to help their people. These interests not only conflict, but it is also unclear how either one is best protected. Not everyone believes that strong IPR protection benefits the pharmaceutical...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...research after university in how the human brain perceives things in three dimensions. So I did a doctorate in psychology. But I always wanted to ultimately end up being a lawyer. So I qualified as a barrister, and I practised as a barrister in general common law for several years, from I think 1995 till 2010, when I was lucky enough to be appointed as a full-time judge...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...Research Center study from earlier this year, more than 40 percent of American adults get their news from Facebook. Facebook — and its algorithm — are extremely powerful and exert huge amounts of control over what type of news coverage a significant number of its users see. So what does it mean when it’s promoting blatantly false news and clickbait aggregation? How...
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...Research Group Wales, sy'n uno ac yn cefnogi ymchwilwyr a phobl frwdfrydig dros hanes LHDTC+ Cymru. Mae llyfrau gan Norena Shopland yn cynnwys A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales a A Practical Guide to Searching LGBTQIA Historical Records (LGBTQ Histories. Dysgwch fwy ar OpenLearn [AC...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...research showing in one English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading...