3,541 search results

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...workings of Athenian democracy in large part due to the writings of Athenian historian Thucydides. In the course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me,...
What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...At an industry, organisational or enterprise level, we have the potential to make changes whose effect multiplies across our communities to give significant scale. More on digital carbon footprints This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?
History & The Arts

Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?

...work, Plath was creatively preoccupied with ideas and images of doubleness, death, rebirth, and reinvention. The young Plath, like the teenage Swift, was an obliging All-American blonde, who coyly posed for cheesecake shots of swimwear fashions for the Cambridge University newspaper Varsity in 1956. It was this unthreatening image that she was later to violently reject in...
Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...work; it is more expensive than conventional paint protection but is finding increasing use in the motor industry. Where does zinc come in our activity series? We have argued that to coat steel with a metal that does not oxidize in air makes sense, so it seems odd to use a metal that oxidizes even more readily than does iron. Zinc, like aluminium, oxidizes easily. It also...
Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...working and suggests that team management and tactical decisions might be taking priority over the health of players. [David Luiz of Arsenal clashes heads with Raul Jimenez of Wolves during the Premier League match between Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Emirates Stadium on November 29, 2020] David Luiz and Raul Jimenez - Jimenez was stretchered off following a...
The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...working on the spacecraft. Galileo’s evidence A scientific instrument onboard Galileo – the magnetometer – recorded the magnetic field in the vicinity of Europa as it performed its multiple flybys of the ice-covered moon. By reconstructing this data, scientists found that Jupiter’s magnetic field lines were disturbed around Europa, suggesting Europa itself was...
Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?

...work? The format is quite complex as there are two preliminary group stages where the 16 teams are divided into four groups of four. In the first preliminary stage the four teams in each group play each other to determine which group they go into for the second stage. After the second stage the team are ranked from 1 to 16 with the top four ranked teams playing in...
Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau
History & The Arts

Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau

...Rhagfyr–Ionawr. Perrins, D. (2000) ‘This town ain’t big enough for the both of us’ in Blandford, S. (ed.) Wales on Screen, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, Seren. Evans, M (2002) 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' in Thomas, E. Selected Work, ’95 – ’98, Aberteifi, Parthian. French, P. (1999) ‘Something for the weekend’, The Observer, 6 Mehefin. Dysgwch fwy ar OpenLearn...