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Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Education (ASE). DNA Sequences: from Gatesy, J., Hayashi, C., Cronin., M.A. and Arctander, P. (1996) Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid actiodactyls. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13, 954-963. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...educational books, children’s fiction and Sunday reading. Her commentary on them captures the appeal of these books for the child reader, and her autobiography is a good indicator of the attraction these books held for children of her class and generation. The inclusion of more than forty of her documented reading experiences in the UK RED site allows us to search them...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...technological advance to take all these, I don't know, I guess it must be at least a hundred mirrors here and condense them into a tiny space, where we can actually do that timing. CALUM: Yeah. I've not even counted them. But if you compare our lab to the demands of a satellite, we've got like 30 power sockets. So there's a whole bunch of instruments, concealing lots and...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...education, take criminals and rehabilitate them, which was the goal – those are admirable goals, but they’re very hard goals. And it’s very hard to see, in a sort of measured period of time, how much progress you’re making. But if your goal is to build a prison, fill it with people and keep ‘em in there, that’s something government can do rather well. We’ve...
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...technology, so you could imagine that musicians or comedians or drama students, actors and actresses, teachers, specialist groups like religions, could really take that archive and do something so different with it that we have never thought of and would never think of, because we’re not those kinds of people. So the fact that you could make a rap song and use archive...
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...technology attached to it. So it was pretty simple minded and the people who were doing it weren’t really zoologists, they were just saying, ‘Oh look, there’s a rhinoceros!’ You know? There was no discussion of the evolution of the rhinoceros or anything about its biology; it was just, ‘There’s a rhino!’ and that was about the limit of it. So it was...
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...technologies available to the group in question. A typical mistake when moving to virtual working is to believe that only small adjustments to established working practices will be required. This may result in managers failing to think through and plan for working virtually; this can result in reduced performance and heightened stress among team members. Successful...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...Technology (K507) – only available from the Open University. Each module refers to The Sciences Good Study Guide. Module 1, entitled ‘Thinking about measurement’, looks at mathematics in a variety of contexts, e.g. in the kitchen, on the road, in the factory, in the natural world. Module 4, entitled ‘Exploring pattern’, looks at geometrical and numerical...