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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...research. I’ve been working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important...
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Article 10 mins
Earth In Vision: A Collection
Nature & Environment

Earth In Vision: A Collection

The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Video 3 hrs
Family photos and what they mean
Society, Politics & Law

Family photos and what they mean

What can family photos tell us about households, gender roles and emerging technology? Professor Gillian Rose explores her research on family photography, and how this work interacts with her own experiences...Transcript
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Video 5 mins
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...researchers alike to look at his work across their curriculums and methodology discussions. Du Bois’s work offers great examples of how to represent reality (this is called mimesis); he used several different ways of doing this. He worked with statistics, and produced a major scientific study. He also found creative ways of representing statistical information in...
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Article 10 mins
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...research programme. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Birth of a drug: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the criteria that must be satisfied before starting new drug development say how an understanding of the pharmaceutical background is a necessary basis for the design of the new drug...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...centre and so on. Terry: So do you think these problems just exist in the city? Dr Lincoln Allison : No, there’s not even a real countryside any more in England, that is to say that people who live there are not engaged with agriculture, engaged with the earth at all for the most part, they may sit in church and sing we plough the fields and scatter but most of them are...
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Article 15 mins
Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...centre. Dot like dashes create a sea around the island the castle is on top of.] Open the book Please note: This interactive feature will open in a pop-up window. To play in full-screen mode, hold down the Ctrl key and select the 'Open the book' link above. This will open the book in a new browser tab. For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest...
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Planetary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary science

...centre of a cosmic shooting gallery. This album examines the evidence for and effect of asteroid impacts and meteor explosions on Earth. The 6 video tracks assess the environmental effects caused by bolides of different sizes and trajectories. How do scientists detect that a crater on Earth is the result of an asteroid impact? Ian Gilmour visits an unusual circular...
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Audio 20 mins