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The world around us - Perfume
Health, Sports & Psychology

The world around us - Perfume

...think of a complete perfume as a balanced sequence of 'notes'. The critical feature seems to be volatility. The 'top notes' are the most volatile, and they are the immediately noticeable citrus and herb-like scents. The main effect of a perfume depends on the floral-scented 'middle note', with the less volatile woody, musky 'end notes' providing a long-lasting base, which...
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Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...thinking and acting as if World Environment Day is every day. In this short video, Dr Kevin Collins highlights how developing a more sustainable human-environment relationship depends on our capacity for learning. It is a fundamental part of adaptation and managing our environment. The Open University has been teaching and researching about the environment for over 50...
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Video 5 mins
Diversifying classical music programming: performing more women composers
History & The Arts

Diversifying classical music programming: performing more women composers

...programming. Transcript This video explores building programmes of women’s music, ensuring long-term financial sustainability for the performance of women’s music, and building new audiences for women composers’ works. Transcript This video explores diversifying programming and thinking about accessibility within the classical music industry more broadly. Transcript...
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The physical world: quantum
Science, Maths & Technology

The physical world: quantum

...thinking that overthrew classical physics in favour of quantum physics. Called the crown of the twentieth century, quantum mechanics is a blueprint for how everything behaves on an atomic level. Seven video tracks presented by Robert Llewellyn offer a beginner's guide to quantum. He revisits the battle of ideas fought between Einstein and Bohr, explains the importance of...
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Audio 27 mins
Investigating ageing
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating ageing

...think we know what ageing is, but it’s surprisingly difficult to pin down. In this album a 70-year-old fashion model and her 17-year-old grand-daughter take part in a series of scientific tests to see whether it is possible to distinguish between them. The results give an insight into what contemporary science can tell us about what happens at the molecular, genetic,...
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Audio 23 mins
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...thinking was very different from non-Asian thinking. This difference is structured in terms of reason and passion, with the US as reasonable and the Filipino population as passionate and emotional. A further supposition was that the Filipino population could be divided into good and evil. This leads to particular subject positions. A hierarchy is implied, with the US as...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...Think broadly about the music you experience in everyday life and make a list of up to ten such ‘musical’ sounds. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1...Introducing music research: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand something of the diversity, purposes and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Think about how your environment has determined how you go about certain things, and even whether you go about them at all. Discussion Most of you will have woken up in a bed. While all humans sleep, their beds can look very different depending on their culture and climate. Your bed is a cultural construct. If you’re like me you were woken by an alarm clock. In the long...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs