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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...Projects Agency (DARPA)Information Awareness Office (IAO), brought his Total Information Awareness programme to Congress where even the congress-critters eventually rejected it. Yet the intelligence agencies went ahead and essentially built and operated the infrastructure of mass surveillance in secret anyway. When the NSA, both considered, ditched the Constitution and...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...managed the delivery of the Democratic Set in Milton Keynes for The Open University, working with Ursula White of Independent Cinema Milton Keynes (ICMK) to engage the widest possible range of local participants though a community liaison programme. An open call was made to recruit participants from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, with 30 groups responding and 131...
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Article 20 mins
An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...management team was established in 2009 as a group of young people who were experiencing or who had been through a family health crisis themselves and wanted to use their past experiences to help others. Our research highlights that targeted support for children and young people living with a loved one who is seriously ill is both inconsistent and inequitable.Hope works...
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Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...Introduction - This course is a teaching and learning resource for anyone interested in Welsh history. It contains study materials, links to some of the most important institutions that contribute to our understanding of the history of Wales, and a pool of resources that can help you understand Welsh history and the way it is studied. This OpenLearn course is an adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Amanda Theunissen and I suspect I’m here because way back in the eighties I used to edit Nature, which was the BBC’s only environmental strand. It came from the Natural History Unit but they didn’t have any journalists and so I was called in as a journalist and, for about five years, we ran an environmental strand. I was the editor at one stage...
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Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...projected to increase to 2 in 5 people by 2051 (Sport England, 2020). Where does the real problem lie? The BAME community are not, I repeat are not, in the position of power to change things to ensure that these barriers can be removed. This leads me onto the next question. What can be done in a country where racism and discrimination is getting worse and not better? A...
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David Lucey
Education & Development

David Lucey

...introduction to crime and criminology... all interesting topics that I wanted to learn more about.’ And that was one of the reasons he turned to OpenLearn in the first place because, as he explains ‘...it offers a wide range of courses that were simply unavailable at my local education centre. I wanted to learn about new things to get a clearer picture of what fields...
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Article 5 mins
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...introduction to this album Free Speech It’s not just what you say, it’s why you say it and why your audience is listening. Tim Scanlon explains the intricacies of free speech. Find out more about Tim, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Climate Change Should the West shoulder the responsibility for tackling global warming? James Garvey talks about the ethics of...
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