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Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...managed worldwide sales of £900m! Table 1: The top ten most prescribed drugs in the US (1998) BRAND NAME GENERIC NAME COMPANY TREATMENT/USE SALES/£M YR−1 Losec omeprazole AstraZeneca ulcers 2490 Zocor simvastatin Merck cholesterol lowering 2470 Prozac fluoxetine Eli Lilley depression 1750 Norvasc amlodipine Pfizer hypertension 1600 Vasotec enalapril Merck hypertension...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Amanda Theunissen and I suspect I’m here because way back in the eighties I used to edit Nature, which was the BBC’s only environmental strand. It came from the Natural History Unit but they didn’t have any journalists and so I was called in as a journalist and, for about five years, we ran an environmental strand. I was the editor at one stage...
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...projected to increase to 2 in 5 people by 2051 (Sport England, 2020). Where does the real problem lie? The BAME community are not, I repeat are not, in the position of power to change things to ensure that these barriers can be removed. This leads me onto the next question. What can be done in a country where racism and discrimination is getting worse and not better? A...
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...Project Ozma there were no computers. It was all done by eye and ink on paper tapes. Dallas Campbell: So this is the original Project Ozma? This is the consul? Frank Drake: Consul for the telescope control. Project Ozma itself had a separate kind of group of equipment which isn’t, I don’t see it here. It looked a lot like this, but this isn’t it. Dallas Campbell:...
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...manager, who was the contact person between the event centre and the cleaning company, exchanged a word or two with Kifibin. However, she mostly spoke English to him. In an interview, she explained why she was not in regular contact with the cleaner: Actually the cleaning is outsourced and the supervising is outsourced, too, so it should disturb our work as little as...
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...manages to make genuine improvements in patient safety, too often these interventions cannot be replicated elsewhere or scaled up, leading to the curse of “worked once”, as she describes it. One place that has managed to break this pattern is Northern Ireland, which has overcome the problem of poor labelling of lines such as intravenous lines and urinary catheters. A...
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Project)Across the three plants, there were concerns that redundancies were on the horizon. In response, workers at the Blantyre plant agreed to restrict overtime and to share the work equally. One worker at the Blantyre plant, after initially agreeing to the rationing of work, did the opposite and instead ‘hogged’ work resulting in his pay being well above that of...