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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...worked as a natural history film producer for the BBC for 35 years, working on Life on Earth and The Living Planet. However, concerned by the lack of coverage on the state of the environment, he started his own independent production company, Living Planet Productions. They have made over one hundred films on environmental topics. He set up the Brock Initiative which uses...
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...work, from research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of inspiring her viewers to actively engage with the natural environment around them. In 2012 she established the production company Song Thrush Productions, and has received national and international recognition for her work. She has worked with organisations all over the...
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...works around the world. You will explore psychological processes, behaviours and practice across diverse cultures and societies. By the end of this course, you will have expanded your knowledge and understanding of psychology, and how it operates across the globe. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D110 Exploring psychological...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...work through. One of the keys to understanding psychology is to familiarise yourself with its history and core questions. For this reason, The Open University has specifically developed an interactive resource designed to allow you to explore psychology in the way that best suits you. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...working in a world where knowledge is always relative to a perspective or method but no less valuable. In fact, such relative knowledge actually becomes more valuable. Much of 20th century European philosophy has grappled with what they saw as our brave new existential situation, and variations of relativism are increasingly recognized also in the natural and social...
Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...work for Goldman Sachs. She speaks fluent Mandarin and spent six years in China writing a PhD on the Chinese pension system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of...
Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...on the principle of anodic metal dissolution by electrical energy. An electrolyte medium separates the tool (cathode) from the electrically conductive metal workpiece (anode), creating an electrolytic cell. A high amperage, low voltage current is passed through the cell, selectively dissolving away the material to be removed. Produces distortionless, burr-free components
The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...works of Plato, Xenophon, a comic image byAristophanes, and later works by Aristotle to tell us anything about Socrates' life. He, himself, wrote nothing, but his words and actions in the search for and defense of Truth changed the world and his example still inspires people today. This article was originally published on Ancient.eu, written by Joshua J. Mark and released...