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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...manage, aspects of our life that might otherwise escape our attention even though they are important for our well-being. Importantly, because they blend in with the clothes we wear or the objects we use daily, these technologies have allowed us to monitor these aspects in real-life contexts. The capability of wearable products has been used in other ways as well. It has...
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...managed to do is establish a new paradigm, which hopefully will have a benefit for health. RICHARD HOLLIMAN That’s excellent. Thanks very much. MARTIN BOOTMAN You’re welcome. Audio 2 Richard Holliman interviews Martin Bootman. RICHARD HOLLIMAN I’m joined now by Claire Turner, who works in the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences at The Open University....
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...manager (Candaules), where his ideal spectator (Gyges) is able to freely observe an actor performing an assigned role (the wife), it is the wife who both observes and takes control. It is particularly striking that she instantly realises what has occurred, recognises that her husband has betrayed her faith, and demands (and secures) instant payback. [Close up of a woman....
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...manage to work together to combine all these elements effectively?...Week 3: Musical collaboration and the role of the score: 3.2 Instrumental colour - Figure 2 The piano starts playing in the first variation of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. The addition of the piano to the string sounds changes the complex of sound that we hear. Musicians often talk about instrumental...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Managing Director of the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press) she said: ‘I’ve just read my so called novel over; and I really don’t think it does. Its much too slight and sketchy’ (Nicolson, p.482). She planned to revise it for publication later in the year. But her state of mind and her health deteriorated, and on 28 March she drowned herself in the river Ouse near her home....
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...managed sustainably to allow appropriate harvesting and replanting; this also provides some local employment and creates a pleasant and enjoyable place to visit. Woodlands also perform a useful function by temporarily storing rainwater, thereby preventing excessive water from entering streams and rivers too quickly. Wood burning also provides an outlet for wood residues...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...Management of Chemicals. Available at www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/Portals/9/Pesticides/POPred_E.pdf (Accessed 6 June 2013). NOAA (2013) A "red tide" is a common term used for a harmful algal bloom [Online], National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA. Available at oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html (Accessed 6 June 2013). Porteous, A. (2008) Dictionary...