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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...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...opening next to it. When I first read about the changing course of the Dordogne in Montaigne’s essay, I went on a different mental journey. I thought about how little attention I pay to the natural world around me. I doubted that I’d notice any changes in my local river, but knew that I’d spot a new café opening next to it. I suspect I’m not the only one. Like...
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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...
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Art history: C17th to C19th
History & The Arts

Art history: C17th to C19th

...Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture... Christ Church, Spitalfields This film looks at the urban development of Spitalfields, London, revealing the artistic and political messages encoded in Hawksmoor’s monumental church. Kedleston Hall What lies behind a façade? Studying the influences on the once-radical design of Kedleston Hall reveals social...
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Art history: early modern
History & The Arts

Art history: early modern

...Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture... Stained Glass People once thought stained glass windows were “the bible of the poor”, but looking more closely at their function reveals something far more endearingly human. Unravelling an icon Experts reveal the hidden history and cross-cultural complexity of the icon “St George and the Boy from...
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What makes a great speech?
History & The Arts

What makes a great speech?

...material forms part of The Open University course A150 Voices and Texts... Rhetoric Simon Lancaster and Tom Clark touch upon the history of speeches Historical context Capturing a moment in history Metaphor and contrast Techniques used to enhance a speech Flattery and Empathy Techniques to engage an audience Emotional connection Establishing on an emotional connection...
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Andante: beginners' Italian
Languages

Andante: beginners' Italian

...Open University course L195 Andante: beginners' Italian."... Greetings in Italian Learn how to great people in Italian at different times of the day. Ordering food and drinks Practise Italian vowels ordering food and drinks. Buying food at a market Listen to short exchanges at a fruit market and a deli. Booking into a hotel Practise the sound of the letter ‘r’ booking...
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Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...Open University course S396 Ecosystems... Ecosystems: living communities A short introduction to this album What is an ecosystem? How the definition of an ecosystem as "a living system of energy transfer" arose The energy cycle Understanding the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity...
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