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Society, Politics & Law
Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
With elections for the welsh Assembly taking place in a fortnight, are voters getting a clear picture?
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How the stove changed the kitchen
The introduction of the gas stove more than a hundred years ago completely changed the way we use the kitchen—and the rest of our homes.
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Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots
On May 5th, Scotland votes in a parliamentary election. Here's a quick round-up of what's happening on the campaign.
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New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Last night [19th April] the voters of New York took their turn to choose candidates for the 2016 Presidential Election. What did their activity tell us?
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Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
One of the central planks of Donald Trump's campaign for President has been the pledge to build a wall between the US and Mexico. In a personal opinion piece, Lisa Wade explains why a wall might exacerbate the problem he's hoping it will solve.
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What is happening in Brazil?
The Brazilian Parliament voted on Sunday [17th April 2016] to begin impeachment proceedings against the nation's president. How did it come to this?
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
The way much research on sexual differentiation is conducted and communicated has come under intense criticism from scholars in both the natural and social sciences. Cliodhna O’Connor describes how traditional gender stereotypes are projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting. But the dynamics of online spaces have also ...
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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
How do 'welfare to work' programmes such as the New Deal take into account and shape people's personal lives? This free course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, 'workfare' programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and uses two case studies to connect the ...
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Nationalism, self-determination and secession
What makes a 'nation' and what makes peoples strive for nationhood? This free course, Nationalism, self-determination and secession, will provide you with an introduction to studying political ideas by looking at how people who see themselves as nations challenge the existing order to assert their right to a state of their own.
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History & The Arts
Robert Owen and New Lanark
Childcare, education, working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to...
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David Hume
This free course, David Hume, examines Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, 'Of the immortality of the soul'. More generally, it examines some of the shifts in attitude concerning death and religious belief that were taking place in Europe at the end of the eighteenth ...
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Society, Politics & Law
PodMag April 2016
PodMag is the monthly update of news, views and interviews from the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University.