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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...work of the zombie hordes, whether it being flocks of crows gorging themselves on conveniently walking stacks of carrion, or all manner of decomposing organisms reducing the zombies to little more than stacks of bones in a few days to a few weeks. This means that if zombies are deprived of new victims (either through quarantining an outbreak or by survivors holing up...
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...work. This is something on which a number of contributors to this archive project have shared some thoughts. [Photograph of Claire Hnna MP and her handwritten statement. See details below for full transcript.]Long before Sinn Féin, the SDLP took steps inside the Policing Board - there from November 2001 at the outset of the 'new beginning'. But what is today's snapshot...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...work or actions have had a notable impact on British life and have helped shape British “heritage”’. Unfortunately, the house in Holles Street in which he was born, along with the plaque which adorned it, became a victim of late-nineteenth century regeneration. The site is now occupied by John Lewis’s Oxford Street branch, and although a new plaque was later...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...worked by moving audiences between two different “sets” showing scenes from nature in changing time and seasons, the transitions effected by lighting. [Patent image of Daguerre’s London Diorama] Patent image of Daguerre's London Diorama, 1823 With the viewer at the centre of the view, the frame was dissolved. No longer was the experience of landscape representation...
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Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...social media’. Its roots point to two word bubbles, in which are written: ‘Loss of confidence in traditional media’ and ‘Low levels of critical thinking and news literacy’ on the left; and on the right, ‘Shifts in business models’ and ‘Malicious actors’.] Figure 1 The roots of ‘fake news’, from UNESCO’s 2017/2018 Report into World Trends in Freedom...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...works to protect and promote the interests of patients and the public in health research. It is responsible for research ethics committees across the UK. All medical research involving people in the UK, whether in the NHS or the private sector, first has to be approved by an independent research ethics committee. The committee protects the rights and interests of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...work or live in a French-speaking environment, you will get more out of the experience if you can communicate effectively with people. In this short course you will begin to develop your reading and listening skills in French and learn to speak and write the language to communicate in everyday situations. You will acquire a knowledge of the basic structures of French...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...work through this week, try and remember the scientific techniques you covered last week, such as making precise measurements, recording data and observations and interpreting any results. So, clear some space in your freezer and get started!...Week 2: Unique properties of water: 2.1 Experiment 3: Ice tray experiment - Figure 1 Solids, liquids and gases have very...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs