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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...course taken by the Golden Globe sailors, and by looking again at the voyage made by own sailor Antoine Cousot, we investigate the biodiversity of islands, which are special and often threatened havens for life on Earth. We finish by considering the future of biodiversity from a geographical perspective. The Measurement and Importance of Biodiversity Biodiversity in its...
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Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...course be other frames in which the objects appear to behave differently, so we need a description of all the frames, and the way to relate them. The trick was to consider space and time as a four-dimensional object in itself – not a fixed stage on which the objects are defined, but something that itself can change. Space-time Let’s say you and I are going to meet for...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...course? Can you hate forever and keep on punishing? - Author's translation from Andromaque, I. 4 (311-12) Like the tormentor king, he begs for her love and promises her everything: Tell me merely that I can hope and I will give you back your son and be a father to him, […] Fuelled by a kind look from you, I can take everything on. - Author's translation from Andromaque,...
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...course, there are still plenty of people making calls, putting up (and sometimes tearing down) yard signs, trying to mobilise the vote for their preferred national and local candidates. There may even by a few people who actually still pay attention to the endless stream of relentlessly derogatory ads coming from both camps. This jaw-droppingly sad exercise in...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...to link the various subject areas. As part of your study you will learn to navigate an innovative and interactive module website; the perfect way to gain the study skills you’ll need to succeed in the next step in your studies. You might be interested in exploring this related free OpenLearn course: The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK. Find out more:...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However,...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...course of a walk. Use a mnemonic which is a tool that helps us remember certain facts or large amounts of information. Use location to jog memory, such as trying to remember one item per section of the park and then replaying the route in your mind to recall these items. Use someone with you to support you by ‘cueing’. This is where they provide the first letter of...
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