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Exploring Philosophy
History & The Arts

Exploring Philosophy

...Open University argues that many of us today are faced with philosophical questions such as these as we live our lives in the twenty first century. In this collection we ask academics to discuss these questions in addition to other important philosophical issues and concepts such as the morality of abortions and the reconciling a world with evil and a good God. This...
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Guide to diagrams
Money & Business

Guide to diagrams

...Open University runs several courses and qualifications that include diagramming, the environment and systems thinking. You could try out the 12 hours of learning available in this free study unit on Systems Diagramming. At undergraduate level you could start with Engineering the future or Introducing environment. At postgraduate level, Environmental decision making: a...
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, says “the results show that tiny particles are important to explain the formation of intense clouds affected by the pollution of Manaus”. The study is part of by GoAmazon, a project that brings together 100 researchers from Brazil, United States and Germany. The next step for the researchers is to verify the consequences...
Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...course of the pandemic we recognised that the risk of dying because of COVID-19 is twice as high for obese people than people with healthy BMI. The question we should be asking is: whose job really is to inform the public about this terribly important finding, if not ours, the researchers’? Also, what role should our institutions (Universities or otherwise) should be...
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...Open University, gives us an overview of his current projects...Transcript © ​ The Open University Transcript Joe Smith Most of my time at the moment is taken up with three research projects, the first being Quiet Sustainability. We’re trying to work out why it is that so many people in post-socialist countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in our case study, are...
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...Corpus Linguistics And from The Open University... You might like The Open University course Exploring English Grammar Try a free sample of English Grammar In Context on OpenLearn If you're a bit more advanced, consider the postgraduate course Language, literacy and learning in the contemporary world - there's an OpenLearn course sample on learning a second ......
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...course, organisms that yield robust hard-parts, such as shells, teeth and bones, are more likely to furnish suitable material for preservation in the first place, but even these will in time be destroyed by myriad chemical and physical assaults operating at the Earth's surface - unless protected by sedimentary burial. But you need only think, for example, of the...
Energy efficiency: hospitals
Nature & Environment

Energy efficiency: hospitals

...Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future... Energy efficiency: hospitals A short introduction to this album The hospital as a transport hub How hospitals face unique organisational challenges as generators of lots of traffic. Hospital transport strategies Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital. Making hospital transport...