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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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Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...open-cycle mined uranium (Grimes and Nuttall, 2010). Indeed research is underway around the world to explore the benefits of thorium fuelled nuclear power. Bill Nuttall, with Stephen Ashley and colleagues from Cambridge University, have researched thorium in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India. That work has confirmed the importance of closing the...
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Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...opening ceremony (Telegraph Sport, 2021). So, what effect does the postponement have on the athletes and their preparation? This article will explore some of the psychological and physiological impacts of this unusual situation. [Tokyo 2020 sports silhouettes] What impact did the postponement have? Obviously, there is variability in how athletes reacted to the...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...opening and deleting calculator files On the Summary screen follow the instructions at the bottom. For example: To save your existing footprint file. Select the upper box, type the name of the file you want to keep (eg, ExistingFootprint1). Select ‘Save’ To open ExistingFootprint1 (or any other file that you’ve named). Select the down arrow in the lower box, select...
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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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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...course of the century and, in many ways, Gothic writing developed in response to it. The political instability of previous centuries also continued to haunt Irish society and contributed to something of a national identity crisis. As Kevin Whelan puts it, “In Ireland the appeal to the past inevitably worried old wounds on which the scar tissue had never fully...
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...opener for me. I used to sit with my parents, I was in front of the fire, like a dog, watching the world through this little box in the corner of the living room in the early seventies, just thinking, ‘That’s absolutely amazing.’ The fascination of nature, the beauty of nature, the fascination of animals and ecologies and all of that and morphologies was just...
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OpenLearn Cymru ewch â'ch dysgu ymhellach
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

OpenLearn Cymru ewch â'ch dysgu ymhellach

...Dysgwch fwy am y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru a phorwch trwy ein dewis llawn o gyrsiau a chymwysterau www.open.ac.uk/courses Mwy o gyrsiau am ddim yn Gymraeg Ewch i Y Porth – y prif lwyfan ar gyfer darparu a rheoli darpariaeth cyfrwng Cymraeg i fyfyrwyr y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Datblygwyd yr adnoddau addysgol ar y Porth gan staff dysgu’r prifysgolion yng Nghymru....
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