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Education & Development
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
In this transcript from Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor and guests discuss the role of the teenage bedroom across history - with a little help from The Beach Boys.
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Money & Business
How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?
One view of the rising cryptocurrency: We can't say it's a bubble when we don't really understand the value of the currency.
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Society, Politics & Law
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
John Booth reviews Owen Jones' Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative of feral children.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How much money does the UK really contribute to the European Union?
You've seen the bus. You've heard the arguments. But what does the Office For National Statistics say about the UK's actual net contribution to the EU budget?
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Science, Maths & Technology
How much electronic waste do we generate as a species?
Old computers, knackered telly sets and phones that are so last year: How much of this discarded stuff is piling up?
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Society, Politics & Law
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
While governments tighten asylum and citizenship for the poor and persecuted, they sell it at ever higher costs for the rich.
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Society, Politics & Law
Mashing up the Union Jack
Can Gil Doron’s intriguing proposals to remix different heritages in a national flag aid processes of cultural syncretism?
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Nature & Environment
Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
New freedoms for oil and gas exploration in US waters - and a reduction in regulation - could spell disaster for America's coasts, believes Donald Boesch.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Enduring Love
In this collection of audio and video podcasts, we ask how some couples manage to stay together for years, sometimes forever.
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Society, Politics & Law
Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Alan Shipman wonders if an 18th Century French aristocrat foresaw a twist in the Brexit vote that will trip up UK negotiators.
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Education & Development
Interdisciplinarity: A collection
Bringing together the best of interdisciplinary resources from across OpenLearn – could an "Open" qualification be right for you?
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Society, Politics & Law
How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
The 2017 election saw a stronger than foreseen performance by the Labour Party. Matt Walsh explains how Labour’s Facebook success played out, heralding the party’s overall campaign performance. GE2017 was a numbers game: by achieving very high levels of organic reach, Labour managed to target undecided voters in marginal constituencies, energise...