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So, what is this EU referendum everybody is talking about?
Society, Politics & Law

So, what is this EU referendum everybody is talking about?

...German cars can cost twice as much as it does now, as the import customs will have to be added to the price. However, this is only one side of the story. Even worse, trading British products with other nations will become very difficult, as those nations importing goods will, again, have to add the customs. The UK will most likely have to find and establish their own...
Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...course T205 Systems Thinking, Principles and Practice is an excellent introduction to the discipline. Definitions of some generalized system concepts used in systems practice. Boundary Closed system Communication Connectivity Difficulty Emergent properties Environment Feedback Hierarchy Holon Measure of performance Mess Monitoring and control Networks Open system...
Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...German-Jewish historian and political philosopher Hannah Arendt in the courtyard of her birthplace, in Linden-Mitte The OU's series Journeys In Thought explored philosophy through six programmes about six philosophers: Arendt, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Marx, and Rousseau. But how representative of philosophy are these six? This is a more controversial question...
Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...German citizenship and also convinced Churchill and other nation’s leaders to seek out Jewish scientists who were being forced to give up any official positions and place them in their own Universities. I am a strong advocate of civil rights, and fight passionately against racism. My relationship history is somewhat up for debate – I guess it would depend who you...
60-Second Adventures in Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy

...German physicist, Karl Schwarzchild calculated the event horizon of black holes. And it can tell us more about the eventual fate of all the galaxies. Dark Matter Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who discovered Dark Matter in the Universe. But what's the matter with dark matter? Special Relativity Who had more fun in life, Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman? Whichever...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...course, has all sorts of overtones . RH: Exactly, I'm leaving it to you to define. RT: Maybe when I was younger I could be classified as an environmentalist. I was a member of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and all those things. Later on I became an environmental scientist. I guess I was interested in how these things work, particularly how environmental...
Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football

...Andreas Schär, managing director of EURO 2024 GmbH (a joint venture between the German FA and UEFA for the organisation of the tournament), stated that sustainability will be ‘part of the tournament’s DNA’. Since the host selection process began in 2018, sustainability has been a key principle of Euro 2024. This stands in stark contrast to Euro 2020, which took place in 11 different countries and faced criticism for its ......
Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...Dots] Download video transcript References Froebel, F. (1826) The education of man. (Translated from the German by Jarvis 1885). New York: A. Lovell and Company. Holt, L. and Philo, C. (2023) ‘Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?’, Children’s Geographies, 21(5), pp. 819–831. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2130684....