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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of our sun (shown in the computer visualisation below)....
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Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...course, is well known as one of the more colourful characters in the history of astronomy and as one of the greatest of the pre-telescopic observers. Tycho’s detailed observations of the position of Mars, meticulously recorded over many years in the latter part of the 16th century, were used by Kepler in developing his laws of planetary motion. It is completely...
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...German, Italian and Russian, and has been interpreting for 30 years. In between translating she told me about word order, another challenge that interpreters face daily. “With German the ‘nicht’, the ‘not’, can come at the very end of the sentence. So you may be enthusing about something and then the speaker finally says ‘nicht’. But if you’re a German...
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Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...German of Laun, called The Incognito. It was a very lively and pleasant paper ; but as to the strict fidelity of the translation I might have had considerable doubts. He could not go about this sort of work without improving all he touched. In November he was engaged upon a translation of Walladmor, which some Curll of Germany advertised as the translation of a suppressed...
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Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande issued a joint statement in defense of Trump’s action, and the leaders of countries as diverse as Japan, Turkey, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Italy and Denmark have all supported it. According to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Chinese President Xi Jinping also did not condemn the strikes and...
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Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...courses and qualifications. What is the impact of climate risk on financial sector stability? Will countries facing the greatest climate risks also face the steepest rise in cost of public borrowing? Trailer Watch the trailer below for an OU Economics seminar on climate change: Transcript. Learning outcomes After exploring the seminar material, you will be able to discuss...
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Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...you know that Scotland has strong ties with gold mining? Discover the locations where the precious metal is found..._Find out more about The Open University's Environment courses and qualifications. _ Click on the icons below to find out where and when Scotland had its own goldrush, plus what has been made with Scottish gold and what the mining industry has left behind....
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Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...German bands Neu!, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. Song form fractures on Low: verses lose choruses; catchy lines start then peter out into uneasy silence. The whole of side 2 is a sequence of abstract instrumentals – itchy guitar lines and synthesizers fidget over troubled, would-be soothing xylophones. This was a route to modern classical music as it mimics the...
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