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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...Introduction - The MMR dispute is of enormous public significance and this course helps unravel why this has been an area of such dispute. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in Science...The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand more of the scientific factors...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Digital & Computing

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...Introduction - Requires that Windows desktop be used in parallel with reading the book. Tables and charts are a great way to present numerical information in a clear and concise form. This course explains how to use the Windows calculator to carry out basic operations and calculate percentages. You will then learn how to use charts and tables to represent and interpret...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...project at The Bionics Institute, Associate Professor Megan Munsie, a stem cell biologist and bio-ethicist from University of Melbourne and Dr Andi Horvath, a science communicator. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies … We’ve already tried it – ethyl methanesulfonate - as an...
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Video 10 mins
The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...project as a “lost cause”. But the culture of white supremacy was far from defeated, and radical right-wing social movements and organisations have troubled the US ever since. The most notorious group, the Ku Klux Klan, was borne of Southern Democrats’ resentment of emancipation; over the years, it has been invigorated by other radical right groups founded on a...
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Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...project. ‘Outside the Box’ is a new piece of artwork that I will be constructing before and during the exhibition. I am asking people to contribute a story about a personal experience of an act of kindness or solidarity that I will then draw on a side of a cardboard box. These illustrated boxes will be stacked as a colourful sculpture, reminding us that we witness...
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Article 5 mins
Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...projects and lack of focus on green or sustainable approaches in the housing, hospital and education spending plans. Realistically the public expenditure focus would need to go much further to match what many would expect a Green New Deal to look like. This would have a low-carbon economy as central to all the proposals and not just some. So, whilst there are some...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...project, a general practitioner, an employer, a family member as well as care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are many more people experiencing mental distress than those who seek or...
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...Einstein) wireless telegraphy invented 50-60 first fully-electronic computer 40-50 structure of DNA (Watson and Crick); first human in Earth orbit (Gagarin) 30-40 first human on the moon (Armstrong) computers with silicon chips 0-20 Human Genome Mapping Project; multiple organ transplants lap-top computers; communications networking; the Internet; artificial intelligence...
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