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Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...physical locality, the place, in which an organism lives is known as its habitat.) All these interactions produce a complicated set of interrelationships. And these interrelationships can take many forms, as we shall see. Activity 2 Timing: 0 hours 5 minutes … and meanings It's not enough to just spot important words, although that's a useful skill. The vital thing is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...Physics, will introduce the concept of the OpenSTEM Labs, which will in effect form an “Internet of Laboratory Things” that could be open all hours and available in a real distance learning setting. This is enabling OU students to work at a distance with a range of sophisticated, remote-controlled experiments and robotic apparatus. Transcript Professor Braithwaite...
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Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...physics. Despite a slow start working in the patent office, eventually my academic career bloomed, and I became respected and acknowledged by many – I even received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. During the rise to power of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler, I renounced my German citizenship and also convinced Churchill and other nation’s leaders to seek out Jewish...
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Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...Physical Attributes and Physiology [Carlos García and Hicham El Guerrouj- Athens 2004] The goal of elite athletes is to bike, swim or row faster, to run further, or to fight for longer, with more precision and more agility. Whilst every generation must wonder about how much more as human beings we can achieve, research by Joyner (1991) found that from a physiological...
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Article 15 mins
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...physical spaces overtly indicate to parents, governors, Ofsted inspectors and the children that the school values reading, but is this institutional demonstration enough? Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation and some research suggests extrinsic motivation has a detrimental effect on children’s comprehensionIn other ways too, with the...
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...physical space with face-to-face interactions, to working in distributed, virtual teams; as a result, a much greater reliance has been placed on using technology and keeping up to date with rapidly developing IT. New ways of working and different patterns had to be established, often in conjunction with home schooling or sharing internet resources and space with others...
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Article 10 mins
Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...physical and topographic yet they also capture ‘more-than-physical’ qualities. This signals a complex relationship between people and landscapes which presents a significant challenge to the CNPA, as it has done for geographers studying landscape over recent decades. Prior to the 1980s geography commonly considered landscape to be a description of physical,...
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Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...Physical Sciences digs into the research...At the Open University we are looking at asteroids with the OpenScience Observatories to study their rotation and surface. To understand the conditions present in the early solar system, we must study the remnants of its formation. By studying the dynamical and physical properties of the asteroidal bodies we see today, we can...
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Article 10 mins