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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...course, but still recognisable. Or maybe some combination of economic, social and environmental apocalypse will cause the collapse of existing infrastructure and telecommunications will be back to pencil and paper or something even more primitive. As many people have pointed out, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Hamza Bendemra Research...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...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 real-life people and events. The content is often based...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...may evolve rather than disappear, not the least because they are an increasingly popular tourist attraction. This article is an adapted extract from the free course 'Political Ordering', which is adapted from the Open University course Introducing the social sciences (DD102). Mural photographs © Bill Royston Painting from the Same Palette © Mark Ervine and Danny Devenny...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...course. It was challenging to find housing, jobs and even being able to buy food as some local shop owners refused to serve Black people. Due to these challenges, it was also a revolution in small business and home ownership for some Black people, in particular in the Moss Side area of Manchester. Life for me during this period was very isolating because I was a young...
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Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...course - the superhero genre as a whole is based on the linked binaries of hero v villain, good v bad, and right v wrong, with the former winning out in the end. More recent versions of superhero movies trouble these simple distinctions somewhat. For example, The Dark Knight version of Batman is less clear cut, and the two groups of X-men can be seen as more about...
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Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...course not. That’s not how broadcasting works. But just because lawmakers can’t make TV more democratic, that doesn’t mean they should make the Internet less so. Imposing new rules that will effectively harm Internet users’ ability to participate online is not a solution. Who Gets Regulated under the AVMS Directive? As the draft Directive explains, An important...
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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...courses Setting the scene In the summer of 2022, talk of strikes taking place or being threatened across a number of airlines using UK airports was a staple feature in the media. Strikes by airline workers are not in 2022 ‘news’ as such. We have become used to hearing of industrial action in the sector, not least involving staff working for the UK’s
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Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...course. Energy companies look at electricity use and so on. So there's a lot of big data already being collected in a lot of different places now. The data in a small city can also come from sensors in the built environment. So these are sensors that can pick up different kinds of information about the urban environment. For example, something in the news right now,...
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