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Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...technologies and sciences. This enables them to draw analogies, to transfer ideas from one context to another, and to make rapid but accurate predictions of what will and won't work. It is this kind of holistic approach that enables the innovations by context covered in OpenLearn course T207_1 The engineer as problem-solver: the nature of problems to come about. For the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...technology – you just need to ask the right question. No, this is impossible.Our memories are not like that of a computer, but instead can be changed as a result of learning new information, listening to other people’s version of events and also simply by being asked a question that suggests something might have happened. a. Yes, this is fairly easy to do. b. Yes, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Education, Court of Fiestas, Mexico City, Level 3 south wall. Photo: © 2017. Art Resource/Bob Schalkwijk/Scala, Florence. © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./DACS 2018. During the revolution, the Mexican bourgeoisie mobilised the radicalised peasantry and emergent working class to overthrow the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz who had...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...technology director for a textbook publisher. And he’s 5’10” and 245 lbs – which means he is classed as obese. In an effort to lose weight, Nash uses an app to record the calories he consumes and a Fitbit band to track the energy he expends. These tools bring an apparent precision: Nash can quantify the calories in each cracker crunched and stair climbed. But when...
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Video 5 mins
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...technological developments (genetics), a photogenic animal (Dobermans), a race (with Yanagisawa), it looks like science (optogenetics) and there’s a still-higher purpose (sleep and the brain). It is elements like these that can transform everyday scientific events into a compelling cultural narrative, says Stephen Casper, a historian of neurology at Clarkson University...
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Article 15 mins
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...technology, imagination and skill and, above all, decisions. In order to bring a map alive, therefore, we need to know about the codes and conventions that lie behind its production and, also, to understand both the obvious messages and the underlying, often hidden, meanings. Fundamental to producing a map is the relationship between data (the information you wish to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...technologies and silver is often used in electronic circuitry. Aluminium has become one of the most commonly used metals in aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding and the train and automobile industry. Aluminium is a resistant and light material that reduces the weight of transport vehicles, minimising their fuel consumption. In the case of the food and drink industry,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...technological advances, new laws and ethical considerations. Activity 3 Open the CHIP resource in a new tab in your web browser. Begin by clicking ‘pin all’ for methods and return to the star field so you can see them all. Match each of the options with its related terms: Projective testing Queer history/theory IQ testing Alfred Binet Introspection Wilhelm Wundt...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs