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Hope in a changing climate
Nature & Environment

Hope in a changing climate

...work together to rebuild the ecosystem which in turn has restored their environment. By changing their farming practices and re-vegetating these barren lands farmers are significantly improving their way of life. Additional video tracks include interviews with Rwandan president H.E. Paul Kagame and the Wang Family, a success story from China's Loess Plateau. Hope in a...
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Audio 56 mins
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Working with displacement vectors Figure 3 shows two vectors bold r sub one and bold r sub two whose arrows start at the origin O and end at charges q sub one and q sub two . These vectors are called the position vectors of q sub one and q sub two . A position vector has dimensions of length, where the SI unit of length is the metre (m). [Described image] Figure 3 The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...works and to have killed, wounded or stunned the German defenders. In short, they expected to walk into the German lines largely unopposed. However, as we know today, the attack was anything but the walk-over expected. The massive British artillery barrage had damaged the surface of the German defenses, but most defenders survived unharmed in dug-outs (known in German as...
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Article 10 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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