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World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

Marie-Louise Girardin escaped partental disgrace by disguising herself as a man and joining an expedition to the New World. Read about her extraordinary life in this article... Marie-Louise Girardin France/new world 1754-94 Exploration [Labillardière's drawing of his experiences in Australasia ] A drawing by Labillardiere of the expedition Girardin undertook. Even in...
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World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

When Christine de Pizan became widowed in her mid-twenties, she supported her extended family by becoming one of the first female writers in Europe. Find out more about her life... Christine de Pizan c.1364 - c.1430 France Literature [Christine de Pizan image] Christine de Pizan lecturing to a group of men, 1413. During the late middle ages in Europe, few women had any...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

What influence are emoji having on the way we communicate? Is the common use of the eggplant or facepalm emoji something to worry about? Philip Seargeant explores this online visual language...The growth in popularity of emoji over the past six years has been startling. But not only are they emerging as a new pictorial ‘language’, there’s evidence they’re having an...
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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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