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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...course, as the publicity of Hidden Figures. But for a long time women didn’t have such visible role models working in science or space. [A photograph of Katherine Johnson seated wearing her newly awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is sat in the centre of the photo with a man sat behind her. She wears a black blazer and orange blouse underneath, with small medals...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...course in the shadows of turmoil across the border. Dublin was alive back then, Ireland was full of being a “new country”, we had a female president who talked funny but was mega smart, stand up and bow Mrs. Robinson. And, no, I know what you are thinking but here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, our first female president. U2 were conquering the airwaves and our tiny nation...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...course the vikings were more than just bloodthirsty pirates: they were also settlers, landholders, farmers, politicians, and merchants. The connections between technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...course of justice Inerasable as my scars and fate. I am here a woman ... with all my lives strung out like beads before me It isn’t privilege or pity that I seek It isn’t reverence or safety quick happiness or purity but the power to be what I am/ a woman charting my own futures/ a woman holding my beads in my hand [A photograph of a woman holding a bunch of flowers]...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...courses in various places such as OpenLearn. Read books, blogs and resources written by Indigenous people, such as WISN, Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology by Raymond Pierotti. Participate: Interact and, if possible, join like-minded communities, either virtually or locally. This could be helping clear invasive species or monitor local flora and...
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good relationship meets the needs of...
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Mortgage vs rent
Money & Business

Mortgage vs rent

...course, the money’s never made until you sell and cash in, which people are finding now, but I don’t think it’ll be as much as they imagine and, again, people typically take into account just headline benefits. They’ll say what they bought at years ago and what they can sell for now, they don’t take into account any of the costs involved in maintaining the house...
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