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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...course S103 Discovering Science And if you really want to go back to basics, explore the origins of the earth and life through course S269 Earth and Life If you would like to know more about dendrochronology then here are a few suggestions to help you find out more: Books you can read ’Tree Rings: Basic and Applications of Dendrochronology’, Fritz Hans Schweing Ruber,...
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Olde dessert recipes
History & The Arts

Olde dessert recipes

...course served up in one dish. The following is Elizabeth Raffald's recipe in her own words. It uses a syllabub topping made from the recipe above. To make a trifle Put three large macaroons in the middle of your dish, pour as much white wine over them as they will drink, then take a quart of cream, put in as much sugar as will make it sweet, nib your sugar upon the rind...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...courses and qualifications. ‘So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools…’ Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský is leading a research team at The Open University, exploring the use of machine translation tools in language learning, teaching, and assessment. The team's research has revealed the key issues...
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Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness

...season, the smells that meet your nose, how the temperature feels on your skin and savour being in that particular moment. Transcript This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage. Like this? Try our FREE courses...
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Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...course, not everything goes to plan. Finally, do you think if you were on the team you would spend a lot of time at a computer? Listen to Matthew Kear who works on the electronics to find out. Transcript. Why are we excited about super-cavitating hydrofoils? Aeroplanes can fly at high speeds but they move through air. ThrustWSH has to reach high speeds by flying in (or...
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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...place in Rome, Florence or another Italian city? Learn the lingo first with our free course _Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink._ 2: Instagram [Instagram icon] Where would we be without Instagram's 'Valencia' filter to capture the perfect #ShamelessSelfie? The online photo/video-sharing and social networking service was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. In 2012,......
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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...German biologist and medic Otto Warburg noticed that cancer cells consume glucose at an enormous rate. He found that whereas most normal cells break down glucose and shunt its products into the mitochondria – the powerhouses of the cell – where they are burned in the furnace to produce energy, tumour cells partially suppress the activity of the mitochondria and use...
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...courses: Political Ordering Nationalism, self-determination and secession Rights and justice in international relations The USA, power and international order: Foreign policy under Obama Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths Welfare reconstruction 2 days: Step back in time and see BBC 1979 election coverage: See Part Two here 4 days: 1979 NOP poll published in...
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