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Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
History & The Arts

Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer

...worlds... Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer A short introduction to this album. Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Paula James How an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer parallels the myth of Pygmalion. Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Lorna Jowett Gender, femininity and identity in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Pygmalion and Popular Culture: Amanda Potter How viewers...
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Audio 48 mins
Global diets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Global diets

As the range of different restaurants serving different culture's cuisines suggests, the world does not approach each food stuff with a single mind. Discover how different foods are approached differently in different countries with our global diet map...If you'd prefer to read the information in a standard webpage, you can choose to see Global diets: Just the facts.
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Activity 10 mins
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...world’s oceans to remain ice-free. This course describes the basic science of the greenhouse effect and how it has been modified by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. This has resulted in global warming, climate change and an increase in extreme weather events, posing a threat to the Earth’s ecosystems. The course describes the large cuts in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?

...World Rugby, Martin Raftery, announced plans to alter the rules of the game to limit the risk of players suffering concussion, with a specific focus on tackling. Only a few days before, The Telegraph reported that “Jonathan Thomas quits with epilepsy caused by multiple concussion”. Following mild seizures and memory loss, that he believes was the result of sustaining...
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Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...world population controls more than half of the world's wealth, according to a Credit Suisse study released in December. And it is mark of our times that Credit Suisse, which has contributed to the increase in global inequality, proudly produces its Global Wealth Report which is one of the best studies of the phenomenon. And our major international institutions are run by...
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Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. This video shows how it works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland...Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. See here how it is done on the Bog Meadows, a city nature...
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Video 5 mins
Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...world we live in and how we got to where we are. Try out our Arts and Humanities 'tasters' here. Interested? Head over to the Arts & Humanities Pathway. Social Science and Psychology The Social Science and Psychology Pathway tackles some of the key question in the study of society and individuals. Why do places carry meaning for people? What are our rights as citizens?...
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Activity 1 hr
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...world system informed by a praxis-based commitment to radical decentring. In this connection, Chan (2018) maintains that “decolonialists posed the significance of how cultivating a politics of decentralization – and a decentring of the self as expert and knowledge practitioner – might offer an affront to modernity’s domination and its politics of self-replication...
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Video 15 mins