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Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...World War I, it has risen to become the language with the highest number of non-native users in the world and is the most frequently used language among people who don’t share the same language in business, politics and academia. In universities in countries where English is not the official language, English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction and is often...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...world’, before meeting with Croesus in Sardis...The Croesus story from Herodotus Book 1 chapter 6 - 95 forms the ‘Lydios logos’, the basis for this final intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection. We have selected sections for you to enquire into how Herodotus’ narrative is linked with places in the Classical world. You may like to explore the...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...world’s biggest chip designers, Intel, AMD and ARM, and a second flaw in Intel chips. This means that almost every smartphone, tablet, laptop and business computer in the world could be vulnerable to having sensitive data including passwords stolen. The cloud servers that store websites and other internet data are also at risk. This is one of the biggest cyber security...
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Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...world each year based on the computational simulation model study published in PLOS ONE. That’s $15 billion more than the insurance payouts for Hurricane Katrina, $40 billion more than the estimated costs of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and $20 billion more than the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake. That’s over sixty Airbus A380 airplanes, one of the...
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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...World - Part 1: A Chronic Condition," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 2: Small Changes, Big Impacts," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 3: Local and Global Action," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So...
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Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...world of natural history and environment filmmaking, both the professionals but also those people who are using the lavish freedoms of digital media to make their own material and share it. What we realise is that we actually have an incredibly useful teaching resource here, for free, for all of those people. So if you want to be taught how to make a natural history...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...world that actually do matter to people. Hundreds of researchers across the world are working to find things out that will better society. When they find things out that are important, we need to know about it, and we can’t do that if it is buried by stories about chocolate helping you lose weight (it doesn’t). Second, stories like this make the news media less...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...World Cup currently underway, attention on women’s cricket is likely to peak again among the participating nations and beyond. The popularity of the women’s game seems to be going from strength to strength. But for every elite player, there are thousands of women and girls striving for opportunities to play the game at grassroots level. This article, originally...
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