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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...physical appearance of an individual. All languages do this since colours have strong connotations (even if in different cultures, colours are not always invested with the same symbolic meaning, however we will not be looking at this here). In European languages, we can find many similar expressions that incorporate colours, ‘red with rage’; ‘white as snow’ or...
I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...physically unwell which was a blessing. And the doctor’s seemed optimistic about my prospects. “We’ve caught it early,” they’d say. It made it sound like I was being burgled, though. Yes, we’d caught the cancer, but what had it already taken? I’d been robbed. Left without a once formidable sense of security. “I’m sixteen,” I’d plead. “Aren’t I...
Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...physically present the remnants of war are in Croatia when the incoming migrants were warned to stay on specified routes into the country. If they strayed, they risked running into landmines still thought to be planted in cornfields along the way. The eastern regions of Croatia bordering Serbia and Hungary, which are now those most affected by the refugee crisis, suffered...
The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...physical car, but Google was the producer of the algorithms that enabled it to manoeuvre on roads without a driver. To the extent that this accident was the car’s “fault”, the defect must be in the algorithms, and Google clearly accepts this. Section 4 includes the “development defence”, which means that the producer will not be liable if the state of scientific...
Yes, we still need International Women's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Yes, we still need International Women's Day

...physically threatened across social media platforms. Some are speaking back. At the same time feminist ideas are becoming increasingly mainstream. Sites such as Everyday Feminism and Feministing have certainly captured the public interest and, particularly, that of young women. Celebrities support it) and magazines we once associated with traditional femininities now tell...
Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coronavirus: How can athletes get through this period of isolation?

...physical rest will help athletes guard against, but not prevent, burnout when sport returns. Focus on other things. Athletes can be notorious for being shackled to their sport at the expense of everything else. Sport can breed obsession and perfectionism and now can be a time to focus on other pursuits. This may include studying something they are interested in, finding...
Electroless plating
Science, Maths & Technology

Electroless plating

...parts gears, bearings, crankshafts, pumps, hydraulic cylinders, ball studs and transmission thrust washers. Tolerances on deposit thickness range from 0.25 to 2 µm Competes directly with hard chrome-plating. See Also: Electroplating, Chemical vapour deposition (CVD), Physical vapour deposition (PVD), Thermal spraying, Ion implantation and Plasma nitriding/carburising....
The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...physical science' (as pursued by the so-called Pre-Socratic Philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and others) and into the abstract realm of ethics and morality. No matter the diversity of the schools which claimed to carry on his teachings, they all emphasized some form of morality as their foundational tenet. That the 'morality' espoused by one school...