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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...become a global pandemic. Here's a guide to what you need to know about the disease...[A public health announcement about dengue and yellow fevers in Paraguay] A public health campaign about Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever in Paraguay What is yellow fever? The NHS explains the basics of the disease, including what to look for: Yellow fever is a serious viral infection that...
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Article 5 mins
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective, but I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective of how I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Video 10 mins
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...become Sir Humphry, inventor of the miners’ lamp, President of the Royal Society and domineering genius of British science – stripped to the waist, placed a thermometer under his armpit and stepped into a sealed box specially designed by the engineer James Watt for the inhalation of gases, into which he requested the physician Dr. Robert Kinglake to release twenty...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...becoming the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy’s ancestors came to America from County Wexford during the Famine. He took pride in his Irish heritage and received a rapturous welcome during his visit to Ireland in 1963, just five months before his assassination. [This photograph depicts President Kennedy’s motorcade in Patrick Street in Cork city on the...
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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...become looser still. After a brief photo-opportunity in the drawing room of Government House, and a one-half hour informal luncheon in the Sitting Room, the President [Nixon] and the Prime Minister [Heath] began a three and one-half hour private discussion. The conversation opened on the subject of the reverse preferences granted by the UK and EC to developing countries....
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Article 15 mins
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...becoming more popular because they are cheaper than dedicated leased lines. This, however, involves different users sharing internet links to transport their data. Directors of business organisations are increasingly required to provide effective information security. For an organisation to achieve the level of security that is appropriate and at a cost that is...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...become the rival of Mars as a priority for astrobiological study. This course recounts the history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites, examines the available evidence for their internal structures, and considers the niches offered for life to begin and to be sustained. In this context, the 'habitable zone' embraces settings devoid of both sunlight and an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs