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Write around the world - the map!
History & The Arts

Write around the world - the map!

Travel right around the world in the company of books..._Find out more about The Open University's Creative writing courses and qualifications. _ Discover birthplaces and resting-places of authors and the stories behind their books. Go long-haul to a palace in 11th century Japan, and staycation in a converted garage in 20th century Wales. Peep into writers’ bedrooms...
Rhyolite
Science, Maths & Technology

Rhyolite

...courses and qualifications Rhyolite is a fine-grained extrusive igneous rock or volcanic rock. It is pale coloured, often light grey, tan or pinkish. Rhyolite is made up of quartz and feldspar crystals, and occasionally contains some mafic (dark coloured) minerals. Usually the crystals are too small to see without magnification, but occasionally contains larger crystals,...
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Inuit Throat Singing
History & The Arts

Inuit Throat Singing

...course AA317, Words and music... Inuit Throat Singing A short introduction to this album. Tanya Tagaq – Throat Singing The background to throat singing and an example song – husky slipping on ice Learning throat singing How Culture within Singing What Tanya's singing means to her, and how her culture is encapsulated within it. The sounds of throat singing Exploring...
Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...course A151 Making sense of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues...
Online Rights and the Law
Science, Maths & Technology

Online Rights and the Law

...on the net. It also explores who owns the information we publish when we create an online account. This material forms part of the Open University course TU100 My digital life... Why do the media need your help? Online media and freedom of information Does the online Generation have anything to worry about? Are we still legally considered citizens, when we’re online?...
Voice of Indian Song
History & The Arts

Voice of Indian Song

...course AA317 Words and music... Voice of Indian Song A short introduction to this album Becoming a Singer Sudokshina Chatterjee explains why she started to sing, and her journey from the first singing lesson to now. The Voice Sudokshina Chatterjee discusses the voice, looking at how vocalists are trained, the different ways to use the voice, and the difference between...
Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt
Science, Maths & Technology

Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt

...course S339, Understanding the continents... Iceland: ridge, plume and basalt A short introduction to this album. Volcanism in the western riftzone Basalt, Icelands basic building block of the western rift zone Tectonic forces Evidence of Icelands crustal stretching. Volcanism in the eastern riftzone Examining Icelands 1480AD fissure eruption. New land on the Island of...
9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...course of the day they handled in excess of 400 million calls as people in America, and all over the world tried to contact friends and family in New York. This collection gives a snapshot of how the communications company dealt with the unprecedented technological challenges by using techniques such as call gapping to help free up other services... The AT and T Network...