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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...student. It’s hard to ignore that kind of phone call. Running with it The same technology can power smart sports clothing, so that your jogging suit or cycling shorts could carry a global positioning system (GPS) unit and a fitness monitor powered by your movements as you pedal or run. You could monitor and analyse your workout before you hit the shower. Australian...
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Article 5 mins
Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...student journalists at Cardiff University each year: “If you’re first and wrong, you’re not first.” Unsourced chatter Channel 4 News’s apology said their correspondent quoted a source he trusted naming the attacker. No further information on who the source was or where the information came from was provided. Like many news addicts, I was watching Twitter as the...
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996). Current students should look at DTS206's block on food, which addresses the question of affluent diets and its effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
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DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...becomes successively one hour earlier at each 15º longitude west of the Prime Meridian, and one hour later at each 15º longitude east. Time is the same throughout each zone. In practice, many of the zones have been subdivided or their shape altered for convenience. The mean solar time at Greenwich is now called Universal Time (formerly called Greenwich Mean Time or...
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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...become general among the whole population. For example, in English the letter r is still written after vowels, but no longer pronounced by most speakers in central and southern England in words such as for, farm, car, cart, potter, and so on. This change is gradually spreading through the dialects of English, as younger speakers in the north adopt pronunciations without...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...become a secret testing ground, for trying out ideas, phrases, mini-stories and scenes, bits of dialogue – all in complete freedom, with the knowledge that if things don’t work, no one sees these trial runs but you. Over time, your notebook will prove invaluable. It’s especially useful for noting down characters that you might want to develop later. Make notes in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...OU student using the OU Library. For this course, however, we have obtained permission from the author to reproduce the content of the article, which you can find in the Appendix. Note: that, in general, Google Scholar will not necessarily find everything that could be available, as some publishers do not let Google’s crawlers see their content. However, more...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...become terms of abuse. SHAUN I've been called a retard. I've also been called spastic. I've also been called weird. So-- but I've also been called a bit cheeky, a troublemaker, which is more of an endearment word, which I like to say. So they're more endearment. CIAN Another label was a service user. Well, a learning-- a learning disabled person. Disabled. Autistic....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs