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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...introduction to the novel, Blake Morrison suggests that writing this was a form of catharsis for Burgess – although later in his life Burgess spoke of the dejection he felt at the accusations that his artwork was some sort of promo glamorising violence. Following a failed attempt by the Rolling Stones to film the novel and Andy Warhol’s highly experimental take on it,...
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...Introduction - This course focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate level study in Education and Mathematics...Working on your own mathematics: Learning...
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...Introduction - The profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes brought about by information technology will affect every one of us. You may be wondering what digitial technology is and just what is meant by having a digital life. A fundamental idea is that digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers....
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...manager Arsène Wenger, while promising, faces significant hurdles. As critically noted, its effectiveness is hampered by financial disparities: ‘The barrier... is that the cost of the courses is based on the financial resources of the organising member association,’ (FIFA, 1999), (Mazars & ASCI, 2021) a system inherently disadvantaging African and Caribbean...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Introduction - The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement (1969) In this course I want to offer you a panoramic view of the intellectual background to the ideas we're going to cover. There are four principal sections – 'Machines', 'Minds', 'AI' and 'Computers' – framed by this introduction and some...
Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon

...projects working on Apollo samples at The Open University. Thanks to the Apollo astronauts and the curators at NASA, researchers such as myself – who weren’t even born when the Apollo Moon landings took place – are still able to study Moon rocks and feel part of a shared historical ­adventure. New research will explore the possibility of building habitats on the...
Reaction injection moulding (RIM) and Reinforced reaction injection moulding (RRIM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Reaction injection moulding (RIM) and Reinforced reaction injection moulding (RRIM)

...projected area of component, but can be as low as 0.4 MPa and is at least an order of magnitude less than for injection and compression moulding. Low injection and clamping forces are due to the low viscosity of the monomer mixture, enabling the use of vertical machines, saving floor space considerably, and moulds of aluminium, zinc alloy or even epoxy for small...
Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15
Digital & Computing

Some of all human knowledge: Wikipedia at 15

...project that allows anyone to edit has got this far, especially as the website is kept afloat through donations and the efforts of thousands of volunteers. But Wikipedia hasn’t just become an important and heavily relied-upon source of facts: it has become an authority on those facts. [Wikipedia globe held in hands] Through six years of studying Wikipedia I’ve learned...