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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...become a political battleground revealing just how difficult Brexit is going to be? Over the last 40 years almost 70 million people have flown in helicopters between the mainland and offshore oil and gas rigs in the UK side of the North Sea. That works out at over 8 million flights ferrying a skilled workforce from mainly Scottish airports over some of the most...
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Ice Cold In Alex
Science, Maths & Technology

Ice Cold In Alex

...become starved of oxygen, and waste such as lactic acid builds up in the tissues. In the heat our blood also becomes thicker, as moisture is lost through the sweat glands. [Diagram of artery] As the blood gets thicker, the flow through the blood vessels becomes more turbulent, and this may activate the clotting system. Small clots can form, blocking blood vessels and...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...becomes sweet and attractive to birds and mammals that eat it and disperse the seeds in their faeces. The emerged females fly to another fig tree, dismember themselves to crawl into a fig and the cycle starts again. Pity the males who know no life outside the confines of a fig. Pity also the females who must endure self-mutilation to complete their lifecycle. Such is the...
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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...becomes a source of power and liberation. She refuses to continue her attempts to follow the rules, and dismisses the proceedings as ridiculous and the entire court as ‘nothing but a pack of cards’ (ch. 12). This view of childhood as intrinsically honest is another clue into why Charles Dodgson found the company of children attractive. Big and small: Alice’s...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...become more complex human and nuanced human beings through their interactions with other human beings. Their idea of their social identity comes from everyday interactions and early on, children display favouritism towards those who share the same or similar social identities. In-group bias means favouring people who look like us or who are like us in other ways, showing...
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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...become a possible input and output device for us to access a seamless computing experience customised to our own particular needs, and fed from our own personal repository of information stored privately and securely in what we today call the “cloud”, but in the world of 2045 might simply be our digital essence. It’s hard for us to imagine it now, surrounded by...
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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat them. The second covers the important role that microbes play in treating sewage to purify the water so that it can be returned to rivers or to the sea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SG071 Learn about microbes...Microbes – friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...become part of the background of our lives, until today when it is extremely unusual to find someone who has neither a home telephone nor a mobile phone. Just as the telephone changed from a status symbol to become simply another piece of the modern world, so the computer has made a similar transition...Introducing computing and IT: 1.2 The computer - There were very few...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs