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Balloon releases – a touching celebration or an environmental tragedy?
Nature & Environment

Balloon releases – a touching celebration or an environmental tragedy?

...worked for them, with similar or less expense to balloon releases: Blowing bubbles Painting stones with messages Throwing natural confetti made from flower petals Flying a kite This article was inspired by watching a balloon release at a funeral. You can learn more about funerals by watching Stacey Dooley: Inside the Undertakers and following the OU’s content on OU...
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Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices
Nature & Environment

Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices

...as they are better equipped to repair and upgrade older computers. They will ensure that equipment works well, runs legal software copies and that any e-waste is disposed of properly. They will pass on ready-to-use equipment to those who need it, often at little or no cost to the recipient. [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation
Science, Maths & Technology

Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation

...Working on a project inspired by the passion of the rare disease community, Open University PhD student Sarah Needs explains:...Sugars and Proteins Sugar and proteins in the context of the cell are very different to the sugar and proteins we think of as being in our diet. The body is made up of cells and in these cells are many different proteins. These proteins are...
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Health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Health and wellbeing

...work or during everyday life Healthy eating advice and what we should eat before and after exercise The impact of lifestyle on health and wellbeing and the wider determinants of health and ill-health Health attitudes and behaviour and the importance of food in children and young people’s lives Strategies to increase physical activity in children and young people and the...
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Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)

...work is focused on exploring the following question: “why do females on a high fat diet show a higher increase of CSF secretion and decrease of drainage than males on the same diet?” We can explore this by looking at some of the differences between genders – for example, differences in hormone levels and how these differences affect CSF secretion and drainage....
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The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...work. They are the commuters cramming themselves onto Mumbai’s crowded suburban trains, making more than 2.5 billion journeys per year. The trains are busy, hot and the city’s transport network is tested to its very limits daily. The equivalent traffic of all 270 stations of the London tube network, rushes through one single station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus -...
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What kind of Democrat are you?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What kind of Democrat are you?

...working to up-skill the public to navigate how polarisation and extremism happens and how to develop their political literacy in a divisive world. When someone says you are being political, they are rarely understood to be paying you a compliment. However, learning to play the game of “being political” is crucial to everyone now that democracies are undoubtedly under...
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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...work, ‘The Histories’, Herodotus explores the world of his own time, offering a narrative discourse that reflects on conflicts in the past that had given rise to its present organisation. He remarks on noteworthy deeds of Greek and non-Greek people, placing his narrative in the context of towns and cities that had risen and fallen. In ‘The Histories’, Herodotus is...
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