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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...course in the shadows of turmoil across the border. Dublin was alive back then, Ireland was full of being a “new country”, we had a female president who talked funny but was mega smart, stand up and bow Mrs. Robinson. And, no, I know what you are thinking but here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, our first female president. U2 were conquering the airwaves and our tiny nation...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...course the vikings were more than just bloodthirsty pirates: they were also settlers, landholders, farmers, politicians, and merchants. The connections between technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the...
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The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...courses People have been consuming alcohol for at least 10,000 years. And when drinking water was rather risky, alcohol seemed a much safer bet . Amaldus of Villanova, a 14th-century monk, even wrote that alcohol “prolongs life, clears away ill humours, revives the heart and maintains youth”. Today people will give you many reasons for their decision to drink and most...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...course. Instead, I look at where ethics appears in the day‑to‑day reality of design work. Who’s doing ethics? How are they doing it? At what point? Using what tools? And how do these decisions fit within the structures of organisations, rules and regulations, and power dynamics? Ethics isn’t just about big philosophical debates. It’s also about small choices...
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Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Katie Donington]My grandmother was a great lover of history; she wanted to study it at university, but she became profoundly deaf when she was a teenager and then the Second World War intervened. She would tell me stories about Tudors and Stuarts, and she also visited local schools to recount her...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...courses and qualifications. In statistics, analysis is often presented as beginning with data. In practice, this is rarely true. Before any data is collected, there are already expectations about what values are plausible, which outcomes seem unlikely, and what patterns might emerge. These expectations arise from previous studies, theoretical understanding, and practical...
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...course, this doesn’t stop others speculating that the signal may be just that. And it begs the question, how do you work out if a strange signal from space really is a message from aliens? The simple answer is that you have to rule out everything else first and only then can you think it may be aliens. As Sherlock Holmes said: “When you have eliminated the impossible,...
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