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World-Changing Women: Madam CJ Walker
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Madam CJ Walker

As a single woman in the early 20th century making ends meet was no easy feat, so it's remarkable that Madam CJ Walker became the first female self-made millionaire in America. Read her story here... Madam CJ Walker 1867 - 1919 USA Business [Madame CJ Walker image] Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the USA. In early twentieth-century USA it...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...change nappies, we change lives” (quoted in Mooney and McCafferty, 2005). Clearly their pay and conditions were increasingly out of step with this In the context of the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic, we are all too familiar with the critical role of key workers and all too aware of the undervaluing and underpaying of such workers. This was and, in essence, continues to...
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Deep oceans can help us understand our climate
Nature & Environment

Deep oceans can help us understand our climate

...climate. The formation of deep water masses occurs when cold dense waters at high-latitudes sink and subsequently flow at depth around the globe before later upwelling to the surface. This phenomenon occurs in the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean and this maintains a series of important planetary-scale oceanic flows known as the Atlantic meridional overturning...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...Change in the West of Ireland, the concept of synthesis is used as a way to understand how places are continually evolving while retaining their uniqueness. This may sound complicated at first, but can perhaps best be approached by applying the idea to a familiar real-world example. Activity: What makes a place unique? To begin, think about the area where you live, or...
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Shift working – does it change how we think?
Science, Maths & Technology

Shift working – does it change how we think?

...changes in natural light levels. Regular sleeping habits (i.e. sleeping and waking at similar times) that match natural light changes (i.e. sleeping during darkness and waking during daylight) are important for an optimal circadian rhythm. Therefore, occasional activities like staying up later at the weekend or flying across time zones which desynchronise the relationship...
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How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman...[Shoppers queue in 1950s Bristol] Shoppers wait patiently in Bristol, during the 1950s. This year’s Family Spending report, which covers the financial year ending March 2017, marks the sixtieth year of results from a household expenditure survey – in its current form, the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCFS) –...
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...change, exposing systemic barriers and encouraging active solutions. Understanding gender discrimination Gender discrimination in academia is complex and multifaceted, manifesting through unconscious bias, entrenched systemic barriers, and restricted access to leadership roles (Etzkowitz et al., 2020; Heilman and Caleo, 2018; Mott, 2022). The concept of intersectionality...
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How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...changed his life. ...[British Prime Minister Tony Blair (R), US Senator George Mitchell (C) and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (L) smiling on April 10, 1998, after they signed an historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland, ending a 30-year conflict. ] Previous British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, US Senator George J. Mitchell and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on...
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