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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...University, our shared interest in the potential of STEAM education emerged. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Compared to traditional STEM programmes, arts are included, to foster innovation, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration. STEAM focuses on using imagination and creativity through the arts in ways that bring...
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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...University’s International Studies qualification. The movement of millions of Africans to the New World, during a period of roughly four hundred years, was by any standard, a major historical phenomenon. Rightly, accounts have emphasised the immediate impact, in terms of suffering and deaths, and the human tragedy that this represented. But there were also profound...
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Smartphones and cognition: A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 605. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...universal responsibility to tackle sectarianism in all its forms. The IRA is fully committed to the goals of Irish unity and independence and to building the republic outlined in the 1916 Proclamation. We call for maximum unity and effort by Irish republicans everywhere. We are confident that by working together Irish republicans can achieve our objectives. Every...
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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...Universe has been asked for millennia, but the answer remains elusive. This is despite the objectives of many past, current and future space exploration missions to find evidence of past (extinct) or present (extant) life. But as our understanding of life on Earth improves and we expand the range of extra-terrestrial environments we explore with new technologies, the...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...University, for example, painstakingly collected and studied some 15,000 trilobite fossils through approximately two million years' worth of muddy sediments that had accumulated in what was then a deep subsiding marine basin in mid-Wales. In each of eight different lineages, he was able to demonstrate gradual transitions between different species going up through the...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...University's Environment courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift,...
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