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East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films
Education & Development

East Asian Heritage month: a celebration of Studio Ghibli films

...course to them it’s just an interesting fact, but I can’t repress tears at the thought of Hiroshima in particular – my grandfather was born in Hiroshima. Sometimes, it’s what is represented as much as what isn’t that shows this. When we showed my mum My Neighbour Totoro, she couldn’t help laughing as she said it was an old-fashioned idea of Japanese...
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Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...course you see that I am a brown-skinned woman who wears a hijab with a foreign sounding name. The legitimacy of my ‘Englishness’ is suddenly called into question and the label can be a difficult pill for many people to swallow. As a classmate at school once said to me, ‘you’re not actually English though’, a comment which stung more deeply than I had...
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...course will help you discover why Ireland was the perfect melting pot to establish a horror genre which has taken over the world. While Irish literature is often associated with the Nobel Prize-winning poetry of Seamus Heaney or the famously difficult modernist prose of James Joyce, the Gothic tradition gives us a whole new lens through which to read the legacy of...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Open University call ‘legacy interviews’, long-form interviews, in which we talk to key players round the world on energy at some length about what got them interested in it and we probe solutions and problems a little more deeply. The idea is that they will remain on a special website with the Open University for scholars in the future, wondering, ‘What were they...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...course of medical science,” said the microbiologist Milton Wainwright. It was “a therapy the demise of which no one is likely to mourn”. A tsunami of hard-to-heal wounds, however, brought this backwater back to the forefront of medicine. Wounds go through a series of stages to close and heal. After bleeding stops, white blood cells flock to the scene to break down...
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...opened and, although carbon dating failed, isotopic tests confirmed that the remains were indeed Eadgyth’s. But what’s puzzling is that not all of Eadgyth was actually in the lead casket: her hands and feet were nowhere to be found and most of the skull was missing. What happened to these? Experts at the time of the exhumation suggested that thieves had struck in...
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What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...opened impeachment proceedings against her, on the grounds that she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit. There's no consensus that this constitutes a legal basis on which to impeach a president, and many accuse Congress of using the country's current political turmoil to pursue partisan aims. Simultaneously, Brazil’s electoral court will soon issue...
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The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...open up. 72 percent of Clinton voters, but only 4 percent of Trump voters, think the Wall is racist. This is not just asking people whether they approve of the Wall or not, but concerns racism, one of the most serious accusations you can make in American society. In short, 72 percent of Clinton voters are accusing Wall supporters of racism. In a Birkbeck-YouGov-Policy...
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