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Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...history? ...[Profile of Albert Einstein] Albert Einstein Likes : maths, travel, music, civil rights Dislikes: injustice, rote learning Age: 146 Personality traits: extremely intelligent, motivated and logical A bit about me: I have always been an inquisitive person – I remember when my father gifted me a compass as a boy, and I marvelled at what must be moving the...
Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...history of settlements from pre-Roman times. However, it was the emir Muhammad I of Cordoba who in the 9th century identified the strategic and resourceful potential of this fertile land. He built a castle, walled the space with stones and bricks and called it Mayrit. Two gates guarded access to this plot from the east and one from the west. In the 12th century, the area...
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...History Unit in 1992. He is the producer and director of award-winning wildlife TV documentaries for BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic. In 2009, he co-presented the BBC television series Wildest Dreams with Nick Knowles, a reality TV series about wild animals for which Honeyborne acted as mentor and judge to the candidates as they took on a series of filming...
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Family The modern family takes many different forms. But what works best? Brenda Almond gives her perspective on the family. Find out more about Brenda, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Copyright When is inspiration actually plagiarism? Richard Posner guides us through the world of copyright. Find out more about Richard, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites....
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Narratives of COVID
Health, Sports & Psychology

Narratives of COVID

...families; offering understanding and encouragement to others following the death of a child or children. Helpline: 0345 123 2304 (lines open 10am-4pm, 7pm-10pm) Email: helpline@tcf.org.uk Child Bereavement UK Supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. Helpline: 0800 02 888 40 (lines open Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)...
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...family and friends, we visited neighbours, we travelled where and when we wanted, and we shopped among the crowds, without hand sanitizer and protective gloves on. Just a few months later, life has changed beyond recognition. The first cases of the virus we now call COVID-19 were detected in China’s Hubei Province at the end of December 2019. Now, for most of us, the...
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...family firms, cooperatives and social enterprises in particular. Here there is are real risk that values will be dissipated after a sell-off – but small firms can also be overly conservative, hosting values and practices that are best consigned to history. Independents are often sources of real originality and difference, which rarely survive the transition to corporate...
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most...