3,728 search results
What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications [Vesta ] Vesta, goddess of hearth (palace garden of Sanssouci, Potsdam) by Francois Gaspard Adam, 1758 Virginity, women’s lack of sexual experience before marriage in particular, has been highly valued in many different cultures. Some feminist critics have argued that the high value placed on the virginity...
View article What’s the big deal about virginity?
Article 5 mins
Why has Sweden tightened its borders?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Sweden tightened its borders?

...open and consensual. True, this image has been tarnished by the assassinations of a prime minister and a foreign secretary, riots in Stockholm and the presence of criminal gangs. It could, nevertheless, still be argued that the country has been able to absorb high levels of immigration without widespread serious social and political tensions. Fredrik Reinfeldt, the former...
View article Why has Sweden tightened its borders?
Article 5 mins
Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...Open University's English courses Phone messaging apps are first and foremost a means of relating to, or connecting with, other people. This means that many anxieties about messaging are really concerns about relationships. Importantly, relationships always involve a balance between, on the one hand, expressing solidarity and connecting with others; and, on the other,...
View article Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...course, such an iterative process of building theoretical, empirical and methodological expertise is not the only way to build a research project. Certainly, from the perspective of managing my limited time, it easily leaves too many questions open for too long, and easily becomes distracted. However, for me, methodological openness is how I base my findings in a...
View article Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Article 5 mins
Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...Open University, looks into this here...Find out more about The Open University's Environment qualifications. “Only One Earth” is the motto of 2022’s World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for shifting to a greener lifestyle. It reminds us that our planet is our only home, and we must...
View article Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Article 10 mins
The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...Open University's Music courses and qualifications Interested in the technology of music? You can study that with The Open University What is the science of music? Music is generally thought to be an art rather than a science but what is the science behind the production of music? And can three 'tone-deaf' scientists use these principles to make musical instruments and...
View article The science of making musical instruments
Article 15 mins
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...Open University in collaboration with the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP, gives a high-level overview of how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) works, its risks, and how it may appropriately be used in relation to basic day-to-day legal issues. This note was produced on 27 September 2024 and accordingly reflects the legal and technological position of GenAI as of...
View article Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Article 20 mins
Britain's Billion Year Journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Britain's Billion Year Journey

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications Rodinia - the first supercontinent Between one billion and 620 million years ago, the continental crust that would one day be known as Britain formed tiny parts of a giant supercontinent called Rodinia (approximately 500 million years before the formation of Pangaea, a later supercontinent). All of Britain was south of...
View article Britain's Billion Year Journey
Article 5 mins