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Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...Physical hazards - In any laboratory, potential hazards arise from the use of electrical equipment. The legal requirements relating to the use and maintenance of such equipment are contained in the ‘Electricity at Work Regulations 1989’ (EAW). The regulations require certain safety objectives to be achieved but do not prescribe in detail the measures to be taken....
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...physical and psychological. A recognizable cast of character emerge within the Gothic tradition. Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts and demons often appear alongside men and women who typify extremes of good and evil: monks and nuns, violent tyrants and naïve damsels in distress, Byronic heroes and femmes fatales. It might be worth noting that although such...
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Article 45 mins
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...physical object, part sacred text, and accompanied by an equally complex complement of grave goods ranging from food to furniture, that was eventually placed in the tomb. Below the decorated tomb-chapel that had been painstakingly prepared during the owner's lifetime, the tomb-owner would live on in his ‘house of eternity’...Week 4 Nebamun the man and his tomb: 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...Physical Sciences at The Open University. Through his research he has contributed to a number of space missions. GERAINT MORGAN The Open University is best known for its distance learning. What surprises people is the amount of research we do here and the relevance to the modern world. For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been working on the recent Rosetta mission here at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...Physically I did not feel it. The physical departure with the station is done because of a push of some spring that there are inside. You don't want to start your engines close to the station because you're going to plume everything. So you're just kind of drifting away. And what you're doing there, what we were doing, we're just looking at the instruments, looking at the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...physical ocean atmosphere parts of the climate, where our best guess might still be they could give you 3 degrees warming if you doubled the carbon level in the atmosphere, but if we think about longer-term parts of the system, the melt of ice sheets, the response of the earth’s carbon cycle, the great carbon stores, especially in the land soils and in the ocean, then...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...physical apparatus. Trying to “say what you see” (or cannot see!) can be helpful, too. Visualisation and articulation go hand in hand.’ (Open University, 1988, p. 10) Click on the link below and read ‘Mental mathematics’ by Chris Bills. This text suggests a number of mathematical visualisation activities for you to try out. You are asked to think about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...physical environment. You'll learn more about ecosystems if you work through the remaining units in this series. A variety of orders of placental mammals exist. Taxonomists argue a great deal about the evolutionary origins of these different groups and how the taxonomic boundaries ought to be drawn, so the exact number of mammalian orders varies from 19 to 27, depending...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs