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Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...communicate by releasing chemicals, and the golden chalice is if we can find the chemical that they're producing that says to the other algae let's make more oil. John Craven But how close are you to this becoming anything like a commercial reality? Presenter What you're seeing in there is used cooking oil we've pumped over to the reactor and you end up with the biodiesel...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...communicating properly. And everything I seem to say to them, they've taken the wrong way, and I think, maybe, vice versa. COACH OK. CLIENT So what can I do to reverse that? COACH So it sounds like you're aware that the things that you've tried so far haven't been particularly successful. CLIENT Yeah. COACH And now you're looking to find ways of improving and reversing...
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...communication. There’s no mobile phones, no way of finding out what’s going on, other than these kind of stories that get passed down. So when we see Penelope coming down to try and hear a story about what might have happened to Odysseus, you get that sense of almost desperation to know what’s going on and to have some kind of comfort or some kind of confirmation as...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...communicate in real time. It’s like turning on the lights in a dark room and discovering not just objects, but activity, interaction, and purpose. This course will explore how this glowing frontier of microscopy is helping us unlock secrets at the cellular level and pushing science to new and exciting frontiers. You will begin by building a solid foundation in the basic...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...communicative civilisations in the Milky Way. Basically, it’s an estimate of how likely it is that there is an advanced alien race somewhere out there that we might be able to detect signals from. The number of these civilisations is worked out by a long multiplication of lots of different factors, illustrated in Figure 8: Number of civilisations = Rate of star...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...communications from HMRC carefully The code usually comprises four numbers and one or two letters – for example, 1257L. In Scotland, you’d see an S before it, and in Wales a C, so S1257L or C1257L. The numbers define your tax-free personal allowance. You simply add a zero (0) to the end of the number, so in the example above your personal allowance would be £12,570...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...communication possible. Cet appareil n’a aucune valeur pour nous. » (Western Union, mémo interne, 1876)...Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris: Activité 11 - Vous allez maintenant visionner Réal Jantzen, ancien directeur de la Cité des enfants et enseignant-chercheur, qui précise la raison d’être de ce musée exceptionnel. Il définit son public et...
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...communications have been possible. Mission controllers are still trying to communicate with the lander, but even if that proves not to be possible, the mission was still a great success so watch out for plenty of science results being announced over the coming months and years. If you want to find out more about the OU’s involvement with the Rosetta mission, then check...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs