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Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...OU students If you are currently studying with the OU as a fee-paying student, you have free access to Microsoft Office 365. This includes the spreadsheet software Excel. For this you need to go to the OU Computing Guide and scroll down to ‘Microsoft Office 365’. Click on the link. If you have not done so, then you should follow the instructions to sign up to get...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Live long and prosper?
Science, Maths & Technology

Live long and prosper?

...become more sensitive to detecting smaller planets in wider orbits around their stars, it’s become clear that small, rocky planets are probably very common indeed. It’s been estimated that around 30 per cent of Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. At the time of writing, astronomers don’t yet know of any Earth-sized, Earth-mass...
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Article 10 mins
Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart

...become the first woman to solo fly across the North American continent and back, the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic and between 1930 and 1936 I set seven women’s speed and distance records in aviation and continued to be a huge advocate for female pilots. Unfortunately my life-long adventure ended in what would become my final attempt at a major...
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Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...becomes, the more (negative feedback) countersteering will be required to correct it, but also the greater the possibility of 'over-correcting' and veering off course in the other direction. If levels of stress are not corrected, the body continues to produce adrenal hormones which further contribute to feelings of stress and send the body-mind system into a vicious,...
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Article 5 mins
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...becomes unable to participate in decision-making about their health, the advance care plan can be used to inform the discussion and decisions that will be made, as underpinned and embedded in best interest decision-making (UK Public General Acts, 2005). It is therefore recommended that we discuss these differences in advance care planning and what we want with our...
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Article 10 mins
Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...become an iconic figure renowned throughout the world as a pioneer of the freedom of movement. In comparison, Williams’ story has largely been erased from history. His insistence that black people bear arms in order to defend themselves against violent racism led to his falling out of favour with the national leadership of the NAACP. On the run from the FBI between 1961...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...become extinct within the next 10 years, the problems of palm oil are not an isolated case of environmental destruction but expose a complex and coordinated system of ecological exploitation leading to a multitude of environmental effects ranging from species extinction to loss of biodiversity and climate change. Why banning the ad was political. Whilst Greenpeace often...
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...become sort of the ‘E’ word, which everybody thinks, ‘Oh dear, now I’m going to be told what to do and how to think and be blamed,’ we have a redefinition of that and say, ‘Let’s start telling stories about people and nature.’ Are environmental issues bad box office? I don’t know if much research is done into the relationship between audience figures and...
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