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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...world, a world where most of the staff wore suit, shirt and tie and left for home each evening to find dinner cooked and waiting for them. Katherine had to juggle home and work, like so many women today. But her workplace was 1950s and 60s NASA, where women’s place was lowly. They didn’t speak at meetings or get their names acknowledged as authors of reports. As...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...world is dying. We live in an age where it is necessary to increase awareness and act on issues rapidly. Yet it is deemed inappropriate to generate awareness of fundamental problems in production because to do so would be deemed too political. It is difficult to see what makes raising awareness of scandalous production models political, other than seeing that politics has...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...world was rapidly becoming more joined-up during this period than at any time since the heyday of the Roman Empire. Trade fostered international links across the North Sea, Baltic and beyond, and similar developments were happening as far afield as the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This was a period in which people began to live and work in entirely new ways, and...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...World Cup. Manchester City won the 1969 FA Cup with a team of eleven English players and an English manager. In 2019 the League Cup winning team featured just two Englishmen and was managed by former Spanish international, Pep Guardiola. Table 1 shows the nationalities of the players of the two successful teams and highlights the global composition of Manchester City’s...
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Modelling and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...world examples addressing real-world problems; this is typical of M248. It is relatively self-contained and should be reasonably easy to understand for someone with a good knowledge of basic mathematics. However, a few techniques and definitions are present in the extract without explanation. Mathematical/statistical content at the Open University is usually provided to...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...world problems across healthcare, environmental science and beyond by combining prior knowledge with newly acquired data...Find out more about The Open University's Statistics courses and qualifications. In statistics, analysis is often presented as beginning with data. In practice, this is rarely true. Before any data is collected, there are already expectations about...
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection

...World Health Organisation (14th April 2025) New study highlights multiple long-term health complications from female genital mutilation. Available at: https://www.who.int/news/item/14-04-2025-new-study-highlights-multiple-long-term-health-complications-from-female-genital-mutilation. (Accessed 16th February 2025). Further Resources World FGM prevalence map – National...
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From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story
Education & Development

From the classroom to the Commonwealth games: Dr Julie McElroy’s story

...world is far richer when I am given the opportunity to contribute, supported by the right allies. [Finnie, the Glasgow 2026 mascot, tandem cycling] My life has been shaped by resilience, curiosity and the unwavering belief that disability should never limit ambition. I have been fortunate to meet people who saw my potential, but I have also worked relentlessly to turn...
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