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Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...World: geographical perspectives, Broadcast Handbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press. Jess, P. (1985) ‘TV08 Southwest Donegal: Tradition and Change’, in The Open University (1985) D205 Changing Britain, Changing World: geographical perspectives, Broadcast Handbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press. Anderson, J. (1985) ‘TV09 Southwest Donegal:...
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How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...world history textbook for New York public high schools, for example, the “Muslim World,” appears in the 10th chapter. In condensing a thousand years of history – from the seventh to the 17th century – it focuses only on “Arab armies” and the rise of early modern Muslim empires. Such narrow focus misses out on the cultural exchanges during this period. For...
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...world with trees. These trees keep on giving. While protecting against climate change, they provide further societal benefits. They offer unique habitats to insects and animals that can increase biodiversity and are a potential source of local food production. Local trees can provide a huge range of ecosystem and public services, as seen in the infographic in Figure 2...
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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...world problems can be constructed. Section 2 looks at graphical representations of two-dimensional models, considers some theoretical implications and examines the graphical solution of such models. Section 3 introduces the simplex method for solving linear programming models and Section 4 uses matrix notation to formalize the simplex method...This free course examines...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...world, and what struck me was how familiar their concerns felt. They were debating issues we still face: who benefits from global trade, whether commerce promotes peace or rivalry, and how governments should respond to economic upheaval. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? I gravitated toward the Scottish Enlightenment because...
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What can we learn from Pokemon Go?
Education & Development

What can we learn from Pokemon Go?

...world lessons? Lots of people have tried, most famously with the virtual world of Second Life, but most attempts have relied on novelty value and not on the other possibilities that these technologies can offer. Augmented reality can use electronic devices to extend users’ perception of their current environment to include and bring to life different times, spaces,...
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The impact of Brexit on British wages
Money & Business

The impact of Brexit on British wages

...world to industrialise beginning in the early 19th century. Although first considered illegal, unions were officially legalised in 1857. Over the next century, they would be influential in representing worker’s rights both in terms of collective bargaining with employers, helping to build a strong “Labour” political party and winning a number of generalised employee...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...world and the annihilation [of its value] results from our need to oppose Being to Non-being [the Nothing], and that the concept of ‘Becoming’ is denied. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Notebooks, 1887–88) It requires a lot of analysis and contextual knowledge to make explicit the argument that Nietzsche makes in this aphorism. However, in short, he draws our...
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