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Cytoskeleton: The cell city's transport system
Nature & Environment

Cytoskeleton: The cell city's transport system

...system?...[Cytoskeleton] Within a cell there is a complex set of structures that define the centre, distinguish one end of the cell from the other and provide routes for transportation. This is the cytoskeleton. It consists of many networks of fibrous proteins - micro-filaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules that help organise, structure and orient the cell....
What makes the legal system just?
Society, Politics & Law

What makes the legal system just?

If a legal system is to dispense justice, it must be just. How do you create that in the courts?.... Transcript Choose another video
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...system became a pressing need following the clean-up of London streets. But even the stench of the river overpowering the Houses of Parliament couldn't persuade the Board of Works to speed up the building process. This editorial from The Morning Chronicle of 20th July, 1859 explores why the fight against cholera had turned the river putrid, and called for faster...
A brief introduction to the Chinese education system
Education & Development

A brief introduction to the Chinese education system

...system and the study hours expected at a Chinese school. ...This content is associated with The Open University Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. [students working at their desks in a Chinese school] Structure of the Chinese education system In China, education is divided into three categories: basic education, higher education, and adult education. By law, each...
Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?
History & The Arts

Crowdsourced annotation: what do you think?

...think this is? If you have knowledge of another language, are there occasions when you cannot find an accurate translation, or resort to body language for meaning? We can all think of words that have been ‘adopted’ into English, or English words which have become common usage in other languages. Now take the plunge and explore what How and Wells have to say, by...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...thinks immediately of David Strauss’ Das Leben Jesu (1835), Eugène Burnouf’s Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien (1844), and Hermann Oldenberg’s Buddha: Sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde (1881). Over the course of the nineteenth century, the European portrayal of Buddhism underwent a profound metamorphosis: from a form of idolatry practiced by...
Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...think that changing to a greener and fairer society is beyond us. But rapid, radical transitions are more possible than we suppose, the study says. Perhaps this sounds like so much wishful thinking. But the authors say their conclusions are firmly based on facts: what we can learn about our capacity for rapid change, they say, comes through examples drawn both from...
Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”
History & The Arts

Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”

Stephen Fry explains Rene Descartes argument 'Cogito Ergo Sum' - 'I think, therefore I am'...Find out more about The Open University's Philosophy courses “I think, therefore I am” This is Descartes' famous Cogito argument: Cogito Ergo Sum. This short animation explains how he came to this conclusion of certainty when surrounded by uncertainty and doubt.