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Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...write down any custom settings – such as your WiFi network name and any instructions for connecting to your Internet Service Provider as these will be erased during the reset. The FBI recommends all users should take further steps to safeguard their routers. To do this, you will need the documentation that shipped with your router and use the instructions there to...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...write off the chest pain on a patient who is having trouble communicating because she’s using a phone interpreter. (Kenison et al., 2016, p. 3) Most people assume that language proficiency is a specific skill set that a person has or does not have. It is further assumed that, once migrants have reached a particular level of English, they will be able to “integrate”...
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How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...writing The Fall of Gondolin while on medical leave from the first world war, 100 years ago this month. It is the first story in what would become his legendarium – the mythology that underpins The Lord of the Rings. But behind the fiction was his interest in another epic act of creation: the construction of imaginary languages. That same year, on the other side of...
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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...writing in 2024, there are nearly 35,000 nursing vacancies in the UK (NHS Digital, 2024). The future of the nursing profession and healthcare workforce depends on attracting enough people to train to become nurses. However, to achieve this, nursing needs to be accurately represented by the media to demonstrate the complex, highly skilled profession that it is,...
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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...write anonymously due to previous experiences of stigma in the workplace in relation to their ADHD. Random bruises – from accidentally knocking into door handles to more regularly having minor accidents, ADHD can impact how people move about in the world and the risks they take. It is not uncommon for me to find that I have bruises of ‘unknown origin’ as I can’t...
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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...writing – I seem to enjoy working through evidence and trying to understand why events unfolded as they did. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? After school, I did a fine art portfolio preparation course and began a degree in visual communication before switching to an arts degree. That background meant that I knew a bit about, and...
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Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks

...writes that he did so with mixed feelings, and then offers the standout line: “But the time was right for them to be destroyed.” Back in 2010, I had reported that on a cold winter’s day, the bullets had been delivered in socks, and that the vehicle used to transport the weapons had got stuck in the snow and needed loyalist muscle to move it. These many years later,...
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Who is Donald Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Donald Trump?

...writes, is the music most despised and overlooked by the liberal elite, even though it is adored by its fans: “The reason metal triumphed was because it was the other, it channelled the audience’s anger, it was for all those closed out of the mainstream, and it turns out there’s plenty of them.” The music writer Simon Reynolds also saw Trump as a rock star, but...
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