Health, Sports & Psychology
More than a label
Young people talk about how the complexity of their characters defy simple categorisation...Transcript.
Science, Maths & Technology
Science experiment: The density tower
In this video, the OU's Janet Sumner shows you how to conduct a simple density tower experiment using everyday household liquids...Density Tower template Transcript
Science, Maths & Technology
Design and Designing
...simple materials. Generating ideas through practice Simple techniques for designing CD cases. Experimenting with shapes Making a cardboard mug using different shapes and techniques. Sketching elevations in design Learning how to draw different views of a model. Developing perspective Using an overlay technique to create designs. Orthographic views of a vase How to sketch...
History & The Arts
Lighting the Industrial Revolution
...simple experiment: just stick a rod of copper and one of iron in a lemon, and connect the two together in an external circuit, and you will generate electricity. By connecting such devices together in a "pile", large voltages can be generated at will. Sir Humphrey Davy quickly discovered in 1802 that by putting two carbon electrodes a short distance apart, a continuous...
Nature & Environment
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
...Code Red for Humanity The extent of the challenge has been set out in the starkest of terms by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) in their August 2021 report. They state that there is no room for doubt that climate change is the result of human activity and that the ‘scale of recent changes across the climate system …are unprecedented.’ United...
Science, Maths & Technology
Just six numbers
...simple beginnings, and to do that sort of calculation we'd have to put in as a starting point the recipe for our Universe, which are basically the 6 numbers which determine the expansion of the Universe, its content and the forces governing it. In mathematics there's a marvellous pattern called the Mandelbrot set, which you describe by a very simple formula. That simple...
Education & Development
Knickerbocker glory: Explore healthy eating
...simple and fun activity to teach your child about healthy eating...This activity is intended to be a fun way to talk with your child about healthy eating and choices. You will need A tall glass, selection of ice cream, various kinds of fruit, jelly, cream, yoghurt, flavoured syrups, candy sprinkles, small sweets Activity Ask your child to choose six ingredients to put...
Digital & Computing
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
...simple computations in a specific way to react appropriately to given inputs. By showing them thousands or millions of inputs that have known desired outputs they can learn how to predict the desired outcome for a similar but unseen input. Some AI systems might seem like magic, but they only work if they have millions of labelled inputs to learn from. Compare this with...