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Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...course, as with any community - particularly one built around passion - there are also rifts and schisms, personal and intellectual debates and clashes. [Three young women dressed in Teen Titan costumes for cosplay. ] Teen Titans cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Another form of youth-driven media has...
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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the town has increased by 3.6°C and there are 40 fewer freezing...
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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...course for European integration would be plotted, leaders spent a weekend talking earnestly about their desire to reconnect with ordinary people – yet they did so locked inside a castle, on a hilltop, cordoned off from the city and its inhabitants. What follows, however, is a well-evidenced and reasoned proposal for new forms of democratic participation in the European...
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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...course and the products may be sub-standard. This increases the risk of resistance.” For at least fifteen years, we’ve known about these socioeconomic origins of antimicrobial resistance. Other studies have revealed problems with mislabeled or expired or counterfeit drugs. But the clearestlink between poverty and the rise of antimicrobial resistance is that poor...
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The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...ingenuity, cooperation and sometimes just luck. At times, instead of rooting for the hunted, you’ll find yourself cheering on the hunter. [The Conversation] Miranda Dyson, Senior Lecturer in Biology, The Open University and Vicky Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Biology, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...open border round Northern Ireland? [The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017] The pro-EU march from Hyde Park to Westminster in London on March 25, 2017 It’s becoming uncomfortably clear that in this case – given only the choice between Soft Brexit and Remain – many Hard Brexit enthusiasts would prefer to Remain. They suspect that...
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...Open University, which are considered a social network where people are able to see what living organisms/species are visible in their neighbourhood or anywhere else, and more importantly help them learn about them and even identify them. It is worth noting that knowing what a living thing/species is, is just like learning to recognise a new, say, TV personality. Once the...
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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...Open University’s campus in Milton Keynes. [: A photograph of the Beagle 2 spacecraft with four engineers, within a cleanroom.]Assembly of the Beagle 2 Mars lander in the Aseptic Assembly Facility at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Beagle 2 landed on Mars in 2003 but did not communicate with Earth and was presumed lost until identified on images taken from orbit...
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