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Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...foreign revenue is generated though gorilla tourism. Gorilla Politics Do districts without habituated groups put pressure on the UWA? Conservation workers discuss the political issues surrounding gorilla tourism. Criteria for Habituation Conservationists take into account the gorilla group composition, stability, size, distance from the Park edge and their daily movement....
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...compositional similarity between the Moon and Earth, such as Ted Ringwood’s 1969 binary formation model that hypothesized that the Moon formed simultaneously with Earth as a sister planet, did not fully explain for everything. With every new bit of information that is gained, plot holes and continuity errors get exposed resulting in old hypotheses getting discarded....
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...sang the National Anthem, following this with hearty clapping and cheering. [Crowds outside Buckingham Palace after declaratio of war, 1914] Crowds outside Buckingham Palace on 4 August 1914 All over Europe, such jubilation occurred as people readied themselves to fight for Kaiser, Tsar or Patrie. This enthusiasm is sometimes referred to as the August experience—a...
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The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues
Languages

The Unsung Women Who Shaped the Blues

...their lyrics offered ‘an unprecedented new arena of self-expression’ as they often sang about ‘overt sexuality, abusive men and even queer perspectives’. Together, they articulated a ‘collective experience of freedom’, thereby defying social norms and giving a voice to the voiceless. Their important place in the history of the blues cannot be overstated....
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...composition in three dimensions. The results indicated the bead micro-structures observed and their composition were consistent with that of an iron meteorite that had been worked into a small thin sheet and bent into a tube-shaped bead. So for the first time using modern technology we recorded conclusive proof that the earliest known use of iron by Egyptians was from a...
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The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...composition of Europa’s ocean may be more familiar than once thought. There is also evidence that, like Enceladus, Europa has plumes erupting from its surface that might eject some sub-surface liquid up through the ice. Although it seems likely that processes of exchange between ocean and icy shell are occurring at Europa, we don’t yet know how widespread they are, or...
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Dinasyddiaeth Weithgar yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Dinasyddiaeth Weithgar yng Nghymru

...DU, wedi'i lleoli yn San Steffan, i'r Senedd, ac i Lywodraeth Cymru, sydd wedi'i lleoli ym Mae Caerdydd. Yr enw ar y broses hon yw datganoli. Wrth i'r Senedd dyfu mewn oedran a chyfrifoldeb, ac wrth i Lywodraeth Cymru gymryd mwy o bŵer, felly hefyd mae bywyd dinesig Cymru wedi datblygu. Mae hyn yn golygu bod mwy o gyfleoedd bellach i bobl gymryd rhan yn y broses o wneud...
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Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...composite particles, such as protons and neutrons, which are composed of quarks. You will see that all particle reactions may be described in terms of one of two fundamental interactions, known as the strong and the weak interactions, responsible for binding particles together and allowing them to change type, respectively. This OpenLearn science course was updated with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs