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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows... [farmers in a field haymaking in the early 1900s] Haymaking in the early 1900s, newspaper cutting from my grandmother's scrapbooks. [farmers on a tractor haymaking during the 1950s post-war agricultural revolution] Haymaking during the 1950s post-war...
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...changed to turn it into a global phenomenon?...Surfing legend begins with Polynesian and particularly Hawaiian prehistory, when surfing was ‘the sport of kings’ as well as commoners. Early Hawaiian surfing was on longboards carved from island trees and the action of surfing was similar to stand up paddle surfing, recently rediscovered by Britain’s surfing community....
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Article 5 mins
Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos
Languages

Im Gespräch mit Jannis Androutsopoulos

...and German at Hamburg University talks about his research projects and focus, including multilingual networks in social media, how written communication is changing in the younger generation and the field of digital journalism, in particular how journalists nowadays interact with media users. This recording is in German, suitable for learners at CEFR Level B2 or above....
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Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...changing appearance of the landscape as plant species changed with the changing temperatures and a relict fish that’s being conserved by local volunteers...These videos concentrate on the species that have lived in Northern Ireland since the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. You’ll learn about seabirds in enormous numbers, the changing appearance of the...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...climate and environmental justice perspective. Reducing socio-economic and transport access inequalities; the experience of The Parks Trust The Parks Trust, if you don’t already know, is a self-financing charity that cares for 6000 acres of parks and greenspace in Milton Keynes. The Parks Trust understands public parks are an amazing resource for health and wellbeing...
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Methods in Motion: A collection
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: A collection

...social change. It is a cross-disciplinary research focus of the Open University’s Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)...The following blogs are by active researchers from across the OU, in which they take a moment to reflect upon their experiences. You can discover more about Methods in Motion on the CCIG website. [Grand Central station, New York]...
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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...climate in which the project operates may change during the execution of the project. Unless someone – normally the project manager – institutes a formal way of noting, estimating and carrying out approved changes (change control) the project can deteriorate into chaos. In a more formal project setting, the responsibility for approving or rejecting changes is given to...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Why would a nation move its capital city?
Society, Politics & Law

Why would a nation move its capital city?

...Brazil, Kazakhstan and Nigeria are among the states which have recently moved their capital cities. This short video from The Economist explores some of the reasons a country might decide to try a different capital. In the past century eight countries have changed their capital city pic.twitter.com/rFt9AGzom6 — The Economist (@TheEconomist) January 26, 2017...
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