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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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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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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
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
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...thinking in the twenty-first century. In order to help you get to grips with the nature and scale of the cultural changes that took place, we intend to offer a ‘map’ of the conceptual territory, the intellectual and cultural climate. As we proceed, we shall point to some of the key texts of the period, but we shall continue to concentrate largely on the Enlightenment,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...thinking, smoking, spitting, playing games, betting, singing, playing the piano, the buying and selling of goods, including hot pies and bootlaces. And drinking, of course. In postwar Britain, much of the drinking took place in pubs. It was mainly men that drank there, and they generally drank beer. Relatively little changed in the two decades after The Pub and the People...
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Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?

...thinks the SNP will bide its time...[Nicola Sturgeon signing the original Scottish Independence Referendum Bill] Nicola Sturgeon signing the first referendum into Scottish law Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of a draft bill to make a second independence referendum viable unsurprisingly delighted the audience at the SNP conference in Glasgow. But...
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