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Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...world around us by interpreting information collected by our sense organs and providing a means by which this can affect our behaviour. Of course, whilst these functions are of great interest, they are often not the big questions asked about the brain. These big questions centre around how our brain allows us to think original thoughts, learn new information, and, of...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...world... ...The story of every Summer and Winter Olympics can be partially told through the challenges the organisers confront in the run-up to the Games. The Milano-Cortina games are no exception. There have been fears that a new cable car, which will transport spectators to the site of the Women’s Alpine skiing events in Cortina, will not be finished in time for the...
The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...world, including in Europe, North America and Australia. It is also thought to be the first course to apply consistent methodologies to all the renewables and to cover resources, physics, technologies, environmental aspects and economics. A product of its time, it included a rich array of learning resources including print materials, videos, software and slide packs....
Why learning disability nurses are essential – and how you can become one
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why learning disability nurses are essential – and how you can become one

...world leading research As a nursing student at The Open University, you will also be able to learn more about our world leading learning disability research through the Centre for Society, History and Learning Disabilities (SHLD). You will also have opportunities to attend inclusive events that bring together practitioners, academics, people with learning disabilities and...
The Z Files: Jon Chase
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Jon Chase

...world of science this is the establishment, the Royal Institution is the home of the UK’s science community, but the person I’m meeting is anything but traditional. 28 year-old Jon Chase is on a mission to spread the scientific word in his own unique style. Jon Chase I think it’s important for people to know about science. Science has made us understand so much...
The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...world at the time it was built, but also powerful and useful. It wasn’t beautiful and useless; it was useful I guess. And it was from Newcastle, you know, and that really did inspire me. Benjamin Zephaniah When I was a little boy going down the park with a little girl, I would have been like freaked out if she looked at a ship and went wow isn’t that beautiful, a...
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...world” on the overuse of antibiotics and a lack of new ones in the development pipeline. But there’s another superbug incubator that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves: poverty. Last month at the IMF meeting in Washington, D.C., UK Chancellor George Osborne warned about the potentially devastating human and economic cost of antimicrobial resistance. He called...
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...world, notwithstanding continued rationing. It had developed the jet engine, exploded an atomic bomb in 1952, and Queen Elizabeth II turned on its first atomic power station in 1956. In the 1940s to mid 1950s many people could still envisage an atomic and jet age Britain holding moral sway over an increasingly self-governing empire. [Empire Youth Annual] Title page of...