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Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...Technology. The study, published this month (June) in Atmospheric Research, shows that Pakistan was hit by 126 heat waves of varying durations over the 1997‒2015 period for an average of seven heat waves per year. This year, at least 65 people have died in the capital Karachi, and temperatures in parts of the country have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius for weeks, reaching...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?

...technology is actually reducing the discrimination,” he says. NEEDS previously won awards for its mHealth projects. Alain Labrique, founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, Baltimore, US, says, “There is a lot of data — including our own — showing rapidly decreasing 'digital divides'. Not having a phone is not, in my...

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Article 5 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

What is forensic science?

...technology and new experimental approaches. The term forensic comes from the Latin word forensis, which refers to a Roman business place known as the forum. The forum was a busy site where civic meetings were convened and criminal matters were debated. People accused of a crime, and their accuser, would go the forum and their arguments were presented to the judiciary....

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Article 10 mins

Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...technology and the changing planet. ...All images courtesy of Doug Allan are (c) Doug Allan Doug Allan Doug Allan spent seven years in Antarctica as a research diver, scientist and photographer for the British Antarctic Survey, before changing direction to full time filming in 1983. Since then he has become one of the world’s best known and respected cameramen. He...

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Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...education might learn from each other. You will have the opportunity to first explore a number of conversations from OU academics with artists and media practitioners whose work and engaged practice, uses visual, audio, and digital arts, film, photography, theatre and the spoken word. You will then engage with some aspects of public participation during the ‘Who Are...

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Article 5 mins

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Explore OpenLearn from The Open University

...our range of Sport and Fitness with The Open University, and discover the flexible way to get the degree you’ve been dreaming of. Do you want to try even more free courses? View our full course catalogue here. We've hundreds to choose from! Let us help you get university-ready Get helpful guidance on taking that move into higher education with the free resources below....

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...based on Buddhist economics. Economics and accounting of the future? Alan Shipman and Dr Mike Lucas of The Open University discuss the problems of adopting new business models in a world where accounting and business education are still dominated by profit-maximising ‘shareholder value’, and the challenges ahead for those pursuing a Buddhist economics alternative....

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Audio 44 mins

Nature & Environment

World in transition: Migration and Trade

...educational value of the audio-visual material and explains the course structure. This material is taken from The Open University Course U213 International Development: Challenges for a World in Transition... World in transition: migration and trade Introducing the album's content Small change for a better world Micro-credit unions, how they work and how they are...

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Audio 1 hr 47 mins

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