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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...law was struck down by liver cancer, and Odontuya says she too died in extreme distress. What she calls the “psychological pain” of witnessing a loved one in such a state affected everyone in her family, she says. It was a trauma that many more families have gone through since, because of a steady increase in cancers nationwide over the past two decades, especially...
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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...law are preserved as the Law of the XII Tables. Early inscriptions survive from the 6th Century BCE. Writing was introduced into Southern Italy by Greek colonists in the early 8th Century BCE, Polybius (c. 200-c. 118 BCE), Greek Historian of Rome. Histories 3.22.3 ‘the Ancient Roman language differs so much from the modern that it can only be partially made out, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...law have also helped formulate the South African national water strategy. Since the democratic elections of 1994, the nation has crafted a suite of water policies and laws to redress past inefficiencies, inequities and environmental degradation. For example, a 1998 law makes all water public property, repealing the previous statute that assigned water rights based on...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...Law. Activity 7 Identifying interpretations Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes In this extract Stanley describes his first panic attack, which occurred after a prolonged period of hard work and frightening experiences in the Blitz during the Second World War. He had recently married and was taking a much needed holiday in Wales. As you read, think about how Stanley...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...law. The legal case R. v. Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, Times Law Report, 9 March 1993) was an appeal against a conviction in 1990 under Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974. The prosecution case was that the defendants had failed to maintain their air conditioning system to a sufficient standard and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...laws governing how ice sliding depends on the bed (such as how slippery it is), different maps of the bedrock topography, and different dates of the triggering of instability by warm ocean water or ice shelf collapse. This approach of using a whole ‘ensemble’ of simulations is very common in climate science and other areas of science that use computer models. The...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...laws and reprisals will not prevent this information from leaking out. As a result, Washington faces what can be described as an accelerating hypocrisy collapse -- a dramatic narrowing of the country's room to maneuver between its stated aspirations and its sometimes sordid pursuit of self-interest. The U.S. government, its friends, and its foes can no longer plausibly...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...law, penal reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton, which was published in 1818 and subsequently used by other campaigners and later hagiographers. Buxton describes the terrible scenes of poverty and debauchery that Elizabeth encountered; women, scantily dressed, begging at the gratings, playing at cards, swearing, drunk and violent. Overcome with sadness, Elizabeth pulled out her...
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