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Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...system for new houses (the foundation of modern UK home Energy Performance Certificates). The tests on the passive solar houses showed that they were so successful and cost-effective that MKDC introduced its own building regulations for all of the city’s new houses. They had to be insulated to standards that wouldn’t be matched in the UK national regulations until...
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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...Think of someone you regard as a leader – for example, your manager, a colleague or someone in your community. What is it about them that makes you consider them a leader? Discussion There is no simple answer to the question of who is a leader. As you reflect on your answers to this task you might note real differences between the people you have mentioned. Some might...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...think about how have pictures in books for children changed over the years, and why? [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR Many of us have vivid memories of the stories we encountered in childhood. Mostly, we remember the picture books and illustrated tales which fired our young imaginations and transported us to worlds of magic and adventure. Judging by the popularity of picture...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...thinking about it for a moment. This means that dogs have self-consciousness. But the problem in science is that ideas and assumptions must be demonstrated. It is not enough for someone to have an inkling of something for it to be considered a scientific fact. Self-awareness, or self-consciousness, has been studied mainly by examining the responses of animals and children...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...think about where you are standing. You have a huge responsibility on your shoulder. Umut: I really like the workshops accompanying the piece where you ask audiences to take an ID sized photograph as they are viewing the pictures to register their reaction to the story and the images. You mentioned that for many there is a strong immediate reaction of shock. You call this...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...think about our relationship with the environment. To change the way we think about all this, we first need to change the way we represent it. Transcript We’ll come back to this in a moment. But before that, let’s take an example of a different sort of environmental challenge. The Covid crisis that has blighted the first few years of the 2020s highlighted one of the...
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Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...think of if someone mentions fictional detectives and crime dramas. More Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart than Jo Nesbo and Patricia Cornwell; a clue, perhaps, as to my lack of experience with contemporary crime fiction. But I'm writing a course on forensic psychology that will follow a fictional investigation, and cannot have Philip Marlowe wandering across the same...
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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...thinking, how to ask good questions and to look for the big picture among details and leads, how to be a critical thinker and how to write well. I also learned how to collaborate with people from different backgrounds and with different expertise, and how to manage projects, both in terms of time, for example if I needed to use a particular experimental facility that was...
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Article 10 mins