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Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...out why she feels the UK environment could fare better outside of the Union. Julian Sayarer (JS): In terms of environmental regulation, what are the big worries about the UK outside of the EU and its law? Jenny Jones (JJ): We clearly need international action to deal with Climate Change and the EU has been one of the main drivers of Europe’s transformation towards a low...
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DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes

...out simultaneously so as to save time. You may find it useful to split the activity into two sessions. In the first, you could clean and pre-mordant the fabric, and prepare the dye-bath. In the second session, you can then carry out the dyeing, and test what effect the modifiers have. Precautions To protect them from stains, spills and splashes, cover all of the work...
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Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...out, standing straight with broad chest, and perhaps hands on hips (high-power pose). Bonacci et al.’s (2016) review found that high-power poses can improve feelings of being in control, confidence and self-esteem, and Cuddy et al. (2015) demonstrate that, compared to low-power posers, high-power posers appear more composed and confident, plus more captivating and...
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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...out of the long-vanished past, across the abyss of the ages, if you listen, you can still hear the believing multitudes shouting for Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel. A friend has sent me a new book, from England--THE SHAKESPEARE PROBLEM RESTATED--well restated and closely reasoned; and my fifty years' interest in that matter--asleep for the last three years--is excited...
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Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Background 2020 and 2021 have been described as years like no other; “unprecedented times” was a phrase often used as a way of capturing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for railway workers working life carried on as normal in so far as they all booked on for duty, facing the public on a...
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Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...a wider sense to refer to any technology used by disabled people to enable them to carry out an action or task. ‘Enabling technology’ is another term used to describe such technology. Banes and Seale (2002) give the following explanation: One of the ways in which access to learning resources and teaching material can be facilitated is through the use of specialised technologies often called assistive technology. Assistive ......
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...out what makes them special. Should we send humans to our Moon again?...Discover the amazing diversity of moons in our Solar System. There are lots of moons in our Solar System. The Earth is the only planet with just a single moon. Some are bigger than ours. Many are much smaller. Some moons have ongoing volcanic eruptions. Others have rivers of liquid methane. A small...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...out of the many false claims of seeing evidence of life on the Moon and on Mars. The work of Percival Lowe got a lot of publicity. Dallas Campbell: Here are the canals on … Frank Drake: These are the canals and the civilisation that was solving its problems with this great canal system that he thought he saw with the telescope. All of which proved to be false. Dallas...
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