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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...history of survival, why is it now threatened? Below you’ll find a series of articles that explore the Amazon System and its natural resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the Amazon System need to do in order to continue surviving? Find...
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Article 5 mins
Hidden Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Hidden Maths

...history of Maths; and whether you’re currently studying or not, you’ll find our free resources useful in working out everything from VAT to how much grass seed to order to re-do the lawn this summer. If you’re interested in studying Maths and Stats specifically, or taking a course that involves an element of these subjects, visit The Open University's Mathematics...
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Article 5 mins
Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...styles... Why are managers in the East happier to work with a greater level of ambiguity? Western culture has a history of emphasising rational thought and individuals identifying with their conscious mind. Tacit knowledge and changing the management culture Tacit knowledge is difficult to transfer but a culture that allows space for slower forms of thought can help...
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Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
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Video 25 mins
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...
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Article 15 mins
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...
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Video 10 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...family, signalled to me and everyone else on the ward that my grandfather had been identified by the medical personnel as someone who they were not willing to ‘work on’ anymore. From that moment on it appeared that the clinical staff's behaviour around my grandfather changed, as if he was doomed in some way. Although a ‘do not resuscitate’ form – also known as a...
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The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk. Although raised as a Quaker in ‘name only’, in 1798 a young Elizabeth decided to fully embrace the Quaker faith and traditions. Just two years later, she married tea merchant Joseph Fry, and the couple moved to London. In the intervals between child-bearing,...
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Article 15 mins