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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...course, we are no longer so innocent and with CGI and special effects, we no longer trust the camera, although fantasy had been there right from the very beginning in trick photography and animation. And within British cinema, there had always been genres that steered away from realism, such as comedies (Carry On) and horror (Hammer) but these were seen as ’mere...
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Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...course lice, ticks, and mites. Highly selective breeding teamed with overuse of antibiotics has pummeled their immune systems. Industrialized turkeys are particularly susceptible to aflatoxin poisoning from fungus growing on feed corn, which causes liver cancer in humans. A glutathione s-transferase gene variant that detoxes aflatoxin, found in wild turkeys, has been bred...
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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past IPCC reports and the big event analyses that have been in...
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A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...opening lines of one of the cantos of the poet's pilgramage? Is they face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted - not as now we part, But with a hope A hope never, alas!, realised; and in the concluding stanzas a strain of painful foreboding is accompanied with a tender...
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...Open conflict was only narrowly averted when a local Quaker official, none other than Benjamin Franklin, who later played a prominent role in the American Revolution, persuaded the marchers to back down (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013). What role did the Scots-Irish play in the American Revolution? Irish Presbyterians, who made up the bulk of the Scots-Irish population in Britain’s...
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Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...open, in groups, pairs and individual, Spanish dance displays all the varieties of human choreographic arrangements. Communities pass their local dances, songs and music to the next generations together with their costumes and instruments. A salient characteristic is that men play an important role in these dancing events. The dominance of the masculine is particularly...
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Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...a Materion Gwledig, 28 Mehefin. Roy, R. (2021) COP26 – Is 1.5 still alive? Design@Open blog, 20 Tachwedd. Ar-lein yn http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/design/cop26-is-1-5-still-alive/ Cyrchwyd 2 Awst 2022. Mwy gan OpenLearn Mae'r adnodd hwn yn rhan o'r casgliad Cefnogi gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol, a wnaed yn bosibl gan Gyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru. [HEFCW logo]...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...Open University, explains all in this article for National Coding Week. ...Q: What is AI? A: There is no simple answer! AI is a collection of technologies and techniques that aim to reproduce the intelligence that we see in animals and people inside machines, particularly computers. Q: How does AI work? A: There’s no single way in which AI works – it’s a range of...
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