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How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...world has never seen before”, if it does not stop threatening the US. Trump said North Korea’s threats had gone “beyond a normal state” and that “North Korea best not make any more threats”. But his reaction is at odds with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent comments that the US is open to dialogue with North Korea and is not seeking regime change....
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...World, sugar competes with honey as a source of sweetness. It finds other uses, too. Honey and sugar are mixed with salt by the Greeks and Romans, mainly for medicinal purposes. Yet, it is in India that sugarcane juice is first used to produce granulated sugar crystals, around about 350 CE. By the 1200s, sugar (known as "sweet salt") begins to supplant honey in Christian...
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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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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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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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