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Olde dessert recipes
History & The Arts

Olde dessert recipes

...course served up in one dish. The following is Elizabeth Raffald's recipe in her own words. It uses a syllabub topping made from the recipe above. To make a trifle Put three large macaroons in the middle of your dish, pour as much white wine over them as they will drink, then take a quart of cream, put in as much sugar as will make it sweet, nib your sugar upon the rind...
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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected, and it’s really hard not to do it.” It’s...
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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...open source proposal. Andrew - have you thought through the consequences of this innocuous looking sentence: "We will require that all publicly funded software and hardware is released under an Open Source licence." Most IT projects use proprietary software, that is then tweaked for purpose. That will pretty much stop any IT company working on a public sector project....
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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...place in Rome, Florence or another Italian city? Learn the lingo first with our free course _Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink._ 2: Instagram [Instagram icon] Where would we be without Instagram's 'Valencia' filter to capture the perfect #ShamelessSelfie? The online photo/video-sharing and social networking service was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. In 2012,......
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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...course we're really talking about girls and mothers here, since the debate is highly gendered).Want to know more about childhood? There's an OU course on that... Campaigners and even some researchers go on to blame these goods for a mind-boggling range of social ills, from lack of self-esteem to bodily dissatisfaction to low academic attainment, and (in what seems a...
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...open to the public. ...Krishan Arora Krishan is a consultant and producer. He is currently the International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television. He was previously at the BBC in London, first as Commissioning Executive for specialist factual documentaries and then as the Independents Executive, responsible for the BBC’s strategic relationship...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...open to the public...Krishan Arora Krishan Arora is a consultant and producer. He is currently the International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television. He was previously at the BBC in London, first as Commissioning Executive for specialist factual documentaries and then as the Independents Executive, responsible for the BBC’s strategic...
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