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Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...human mind for millennia. Reflecting many religions and cultures over the plethora of centuries that humanity has persevered, it has multiple names and descriptions. Nevertheless, it has common underlining characteristics: it is a dark, unbearably hot, smelly and eerie place, certainly not a place one would choose to reside forever. ‘Hell was often designated with the...
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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...human waste. Without microbes, we would have no beer, no yoghurt, no coffee. That's quite impressive for something too small to see. This free course, Microbes friend or foe? sheds some light on them...Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...humanities. To do this, Greaney formulates two suggestions: the first focuses on the “ongoing territorial dispute between art and science over the nature of sleep”. This debate revolves around questions such as how to study sleep from the perspectives of different disciplines, for example, which language to use to talk about sleep – poetic, technocratic, machinic?...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...human” lives. Claiming, like many have been doing, that those were, first and foremost, “human” lives and only then accidentally queer, is yet another example of the complexities of LGBTQIA+ politics in the West. We are living through a time when the transgender homicide rate has hit an historic high in the US, when more than 1,700 murders of transgendered...
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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...Humanities courses [Le Corbusier] Date: (1887 - 1965) Nationality: Swiss Famous Buildings: L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion (Paris) Villa Savoye (Poissy) Unité d'Habitation (Marseilles) L'Esprit Nouveau Le Corbusier is without doubt the most influential, most admired, and most maligned architect of the twentieth century. Through his writing and his buildings, he is the main...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...human manufacturing was not constrained by the limits of nature. At the time of this discovery, nobody worried about the fact that synthetic polymers are unperishable. A century had to pass for us to realise that the need to preserve is a double-edged sword. In 1907 Baekeland invented Bakelite, which was the first fully synthetic plastic. During WWII the United States’...
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Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...human beings is malaria, which kills more people than any other parasitic eukaryote, mainly in tropical countries. The agents which cause malaria are protoctists, Plasmodium spp. (phylum 11, Apicomplexa), whose life cycle provides a classic example in which there are several stages, each with a distinct morphology and function and is illustrated here. [Life cycle of a...
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Saint David's Day collection | Casgliad Dydd Gŵyl Dewi
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Saint David's Day collection | Casgliad Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

As we celebrate St David's Day, the patron saint of Wales, you can learn more about Welsh language, culture and society with these free online learning resources...[Jesus Chapel St David] FREE ONLINE COURSES FREE ARTICLES AND ACTIVITIES Explore more from OpenLearn Study with The Open University
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