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The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary
Science, Maths & Technology

The Linux Effect: 20th Anniversary

...University, Blaine Price, tells the story of an extraordinary operating system that in two short decades has grown from a students’ project to the foundation of the internet. Linux runs on everything from your wireless router and Android Smartphone to CERN's most powerful computer. It has championed a whole new philosophy of collaboration and freedom in the software...
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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...guide that should hopefully answer some common questions that arise and provide you with some further information that you might find useful. Please note that in putting the below together I have tried to be as accurate as possible and bring together the views of Muslims from different countries, sects and groups and inevitably, considering we have over 1.6 billion...
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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...University course D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing....Psychology around the world: Introduction - Welcome to this exciting free OpenLearn course! In this course you will explore how psychology helps us to understand human thoughts (how people think), emotions (how people feel) and behaviours (what people do) across different societies. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...University...[Geography matters climate change Bangladesh] Climate change will affect everyone on the planet. Anthropogenic - in other words, caused by humans - no one will be able to escape its effects. It will not discriminate between rich and poor, nor between countries and species. In the short term there will be winners; some areas may benefit, for example, from a...
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Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world
Nature & Environment

Butterflies tell us more than you might think about our natural world

...University module Environment: responding to change Vanishing nature You have probably heard that biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is being eroded away. Climate change, pesticides, deforestation and intensive farming all contribute to this downward trajectory. Butterflies have declined by 50% since the 1970s, with 8% of resident British species extinct, and 41%...
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Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...University event in George Square, Glasgow One of the main aims of the 2019 Open University event was to highlight some of the enduring legacies of 1919 for political events in Glasgow, and which also reflected on George Square as a site of protest over much of the 100 years since 1919. From the late 1990s, Glasgow has experienced successive and numerous strikes by public...
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...University's Business School. For example, the Quarterly Survey tracked the recent growth of online services and their impact on SMEs, including the transition of back office services to ‘cloud-based’ providers, up from less than one in ten (8%) in 2011 to more than one fifth of respondents (21%) two years later. The 2011 report also revealed that businesses...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...universities. This is controversial because there is no widespread agreement on which philosophers it is best to study. In Britain and America (and a number of other places) many philosophers see themselves as working within what they call ‘the analytic tradition’. This is, unsurprisingly, a tradition that has used the techniques of analysis. Quite what counts as...
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