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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...English cathedral is without. The morning was fitly dim and chill, and one could move about in the vague all the more comfortably for the absence of that appeal of thronging monuments which harasses and bewilders the visitor in other cathedrals; one could really give one's self up to serious emotion, and not be sordidly and rapaciously concerned with objects of interest....
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...English language. For example, in England we will say 'to cross the thin blue line' as a law enforcement symbol while in France they say 'franchir la ligne jaune' (to cross the yellow line). Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde explains how language idioms are useful for language learners: "There is an expression in French to denote how an individual may have tastes and ways of...
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...everyday life. Personally I would associate maths with wonder, awe and perhaps just a little terror. So when was the last time you unknowingly borrowed the work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of...
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...everyday risks of human presence. The seeds in the seed vault are stored in black box conditions much like a bank vault. The seed bank provides the infrastructure but neither it, nor the Norwegian government, is allowed to access the seeds themselves. They remain the property of the depositing country. For all of its short history, the direction of travel of plant genetic...
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...everyday discourse is suggested by one of Presser’s participants, who, perhaps unconsciously, justified her own meat-eating with reference to The Lion King’s ideology: ‘The circle of life constitutes that some animals are bred to be nourishment’ (cited in Presser, 2013, p.57). Towards a revolution So what about the alternative resolution of the power paradox: to...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...everyday examples. The course takes a look at measurement of length, mass and volume, negative numbers and how to use these, scientific notation (based upon powers of 10), shapes and how to calculate their properties before finally turning to how to construct and read from tables, charts and graphs. It provides a solid foundation for you to continue with studies in any...
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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...English only there's the rhyming slang porky pie telling porky pies telling porkies. So a porky is a lie again a lighthearted word. There’s the the word fib which means a sort of little perhaps harmless lie which isn't really slang is but it's an informal word. But there aren't any others as far as I'm aware and that is really strange because slang has a thousand words...
Pecyn cymorth gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol
Money & Business

Pecyn cymorth gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol

...English. Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim Erthyglau a gweithgareddau Darllenwch fwy am y casgliad Mae'r casgliad yn clywed gan y rheini mewn sefydliadau addysg uwch (SAUau), sefydliadau a chyrff cyhoeddus sy'n rhannu eu taith tuag at ffyrdd newydd o weithio, yn ogystal ag arbenigwyr mewn cynaliadwyedd a chynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol, ac unigolion sy'n rhannu eu profiadau o addasu...