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Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...at know you are coming and student support staff can get in touch with you to sort out the right support for you. Your information will remain confidential and will only be shared with others at your university if you give your consent. [university ready - white back ] This resource is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...out by hostile older women (in the main). Some tales employ both male and female lead characters. In Hansel and Gretel, say, a brother and sister are exiled and unable to find their way home after suffering the effects of a weak father. Sound familiar? Star Wars injects a further twist by separating them. This separation adds a quintessentially Freudian frisson to the...
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How to make a mountain: Investigating crustal melting in the Himalaya
Science, Maths & Technology

How to make a mountain: Investigating crustal melting in the Himalaya

...out chemical analyses of the rocks, involving techniques such as firing lasers at certain minerals, I can gain precise information about when the granites formed, some 30 to 40 million years ago. These analyses can also provide us with detailed information about the temperatures and pressures the rocks experienced. So by investigating the rocks at a very small scale I can...
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Ever Wondered About... Pizza?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pizza?

...to stop the pizza getting sweaty, combined with a heated disk to keep the pizza hot. When storing your hard cheese in the fridge, it’s worth wrapping it up to help keep flavour. More cheese is spoiled by drying out in cold, airless fridges than by mould. Use waxed paper, or wrap it in foil that you’ve pierced in several places, to allow the cheese to breathe a little....
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Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...out more about the subject Study Social Psychology Event programme The lecture was given on Tuesday 6th June 2017, 6.00-7.00 at the Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Milton Keynes 17:30 Refreshments available (arrive early and enjoy our pre-event display and trailer video) 18.00 Opening 18.05 Talk commences 18:45 Q&A session 18:55 Close 19:00 Drinks reception...
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The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn

...out about historical and everyday inspirations for Irish Gothic writers Explore how setting and atmosphere work in Elizabeth Bowen's ghost story, "The Demon Lover" Think about ghost storytelling in theatre, with Conor McPherson's The Weir as an example See how modern-day Irish short story authors use everyday experiences to convey Gothic themes Engage in creative writing...
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What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...out in this short video and article...What is it? The OpenLearn Race and Ethnicity hub is a collection of existing and new free resources - articles, videos, audios, timelines and courses - that explore the themes of race, racism and ethnicity across the core faculty areas within The Open University. The hub has drawn on existing content already on OpenLearn, but also...
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Sound Systems: Listening to music together
History & The Arts

Sound Systems: Listening to music together

...through further study not only of music related to sound systems, but of any type of music at all, as demonstrated in all our Open University undergraduate and postgraduate music courses. Find out more about The Open University's Music courses and qualifications. Acknowledgement: With thanks to MK Arena for allowing us to use the stadium during the film production....
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