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Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity
History & The Arts

Holi: The festival of colours, the festival of diversity

...trees bear colourful blossoms all over the Indian Subcontinent. Rooted in Hindu mythology, the festival has many regional variations and many different ways in which the harvest of winter crops is celebrated with colour. I argue that Holi is the festival of diversity as much as of colour. The celebrations of Holi involve throwing powder paint and coloured water on each...
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I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3

...family and his disabled daughter, Heidi, Charlie is fast learning that if you want to protect the rainforest you need to include the local people. He goes to spend time with one of his neighbours, a Wacheperi shaman called Don Alberto, who treats sick people with traditional plants and hallucinogenic medicines. He then heads across the border to Brazil. In a vast...
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History how-to videos: Books and bibles
History & The Arts

History how-to videos: Books and bibles

...family tree back into the Victorian period, but since her great grandfather was a waiter in a pub and his wife was a household servant, Grace wonders how they could have afforded such a large and expensive bible. The chances are that if a poor family had a book at all, it would have been a bible. The key to this one is the publisher. This was printed in 1870 by the...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...family tree. Fig wasps too are extremely diverse with each species of fig being pollinated by only one or a very few species of wasps. The figs we eat are just one species, with several varieties bred to grow fruit without needing to be pollinated at all. [fig fruit on a fig tree] So much for figs and their pollinators. What is remarkable is how this unique relationship...
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The Celtic origins of the Welsh language
Education & Development

The Celtic origins of the Welsh language

...family] Model of a language tree showing the relationships between (major) languages of the Indo-European family. The arrival of the Celts It is thought that the Celts came from central Europe, arriving in the British Isles some time during the fifth century BC. The first wave of Celts to arrive spoke a language which we call Goidelic, and from that language developed...
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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...tree ring growth. Here she gives Ever Wondered her expert perspective on what tree rings can tell us about ourselves...[A dead tree on the coast] "Time flashes by. We are here for just a moment and then we’re part of history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out live us....
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Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...trees as a habitat for certain rare species of insect and fungus. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Neighbourhood nature: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how woodland is structured understand what is meant by the term ‘ancient woodland’ and how such woodland may be...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

Trees can lock carbon dioxide safely out the atmosphere. But don't forget forests can cool and dampen the planet, too...What would have seemed obvious from the start — that lush green forests that cover the earth absorb the heat of the sun and thereby cool the earth — has now been confirmed by scientists. The conventional wisdom has been that forests and trees were...
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