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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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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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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining a ‘safe distance’ from that process. Autoethnography reverses this dynamic as it sees the researcher turn the ‘lens’ on themselves, recounting their own stories and...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...open to us, but one by one the doors were closed in our faces. In my opinion, what happened was the way of the judicial system making a clear statement, to make clear to Black people that in this country, that before the law, their lives were worth nothing”. The historicity of the stereotype of the Strong Black Mother – one who endures, one who does not feel pain or...
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...open” to the West for less than a hundred years, and many old traditions still remained. ホームセンターで買ってきた寄せ植え用ミニ観葉植物を「美しいね･･･」と愛でる水木しげる。森の精のような1枚になりました！ pic.twitter.com/sOeuVzIJ6f — 水木プロダクション (@mizukipro) September 30, 2015 Mizuki Shigeru...
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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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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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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...course, scenarios in which the use of one's legal name does increase accountability. Facebook has many reasons to stick with this policy, and this is one of them. But more than this, I believe the real name policy is about business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to check ID at the proverbial door, but not enforcing a...
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