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Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...opened a space for a moral critique of chattel slavery. Recognition that chattel slavery was a ‘social evil’ also gained moral and political significance following the defeat of the British in the American War of Independence in 1781.Recognition that chattel slavery was a ‘social evil’ also gained moral and political significance following the defeat of the...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...courses. References Average person will try 126 fad diets in their lifetime, poll claims | The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/diet-weight-loss-food-unhealthy-eating-habits-a9274676.html (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Fad Diets Food Fact Sheet. Available at:
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Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?
Society, Politics & Law

Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?

...course, law enforcement forces, not the military, are typically responsible for protecting people from criminals. However, if a military strike was the only way to save someone from becoming a victim of a horrific crime, I don’t think international or domestic law would block it. But absent more facts, none of this seem to me to justify attacking the wives of the 9/11...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...open issues where you can actually get involved and you can actually do something. It’s being able to do something, it’s a sense of helplessness, I think, not that it’s doom and gloom, it’s the helplessness. And it’s the helplessness in the face of political intransigence, which is why I feel social media is probably the way forward, not main broadcasters....
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David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...opening up archives...David Allen David is a multi Emmy-award winner with a prolific twenty-year career as a leading Producer in his field. He now heads up a large team of leading creatives, producers and experts across Passion Planet’s specialist output at Passion Pictures Films. These include a wide and varied range of tailored approaches, formats and genre – from...
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Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...Open University's BA (Honours) History and Politics qualification. In 2020, there were petitions to remove Clive of India’s statue from outside the Foreign Office in London. Leading historians view Robert Clive as unworthy of celebration since his reputation falls far short of the values demanded of public office and because his administrative failures led to the...
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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...course, and we don’t extract every calorie from the food we eat. This problem was addressed at the end of the 19th century, in one of the more epic experiments in the history of nutrition science. Wilbur Atwater, a Department of Agriculture scientist, began by measuring the calories contained in more than 4,000 foods. Then he fed those foods to volunteers and collected...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...courses all kicked up for two or three years after Blue Planet, because of the impact that that series made on the public. Should the environmental programme accompanying Blue Planet have been shown on a different channel? Blue Planet came out as eight blue chip, straight natural history programmes and there was a ninth programme which was called Making Waves, which was...
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