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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...opening day. Walter Carpenter My father was Vice-President of the corporation that built the Silver Bridge. It was a wonderful time to be a young American boy. The Roaring Twenties, they called it, and America had…had never been as prosperous, they just thought nothing but the best in the future and a wonderful time for America. The St Marys Citizens Band marched at the...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...Open without dropping a set. Shortly after that win, Dr Jessica Pinchbeck looked at the important role her parents played in her career and life up to that point...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their...
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Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...intense ethnographic research in divided neighbourhoods; while We Are The 48 and local pro-Europe groups offer alternative identifications. Such groups offer resources for engaging with a post-Brexit world, of renewing our ‘openness’ mission while – of course – holding on to our distinctive strengths in conducting rigorous research and first-rate analysis....
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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...Open University sociologists Rachel Thompson and Jacqui Gabb, into diverse homes around the country. They spoke to an extended family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these recent societal shifts for our thinking about romantic relationships. The thought-provoking episodes are still available as...
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CLA – Hitchiner process
Science, Maths & Technology

CLA – Hitchiner process

...open end at the bottom. This is lowered into the induction melted metal. Vacuum is applied, and metal is transferred uphill, into the mould. [Diagram of Hitchiner Process ] Chandler-Lamb Vacuum (CLV) – Hitchiner Process Similar to CLA process, except that a double vacuum chamber is used, for which it is difficult to balance the control of pressures. Argon is allowed...
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OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA In Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”, Professor Nick Braithwaite, OU Professor of Engineering Physics, will introduce the concept of the OpenSTEM Labs, which will in effect form an “Internet of Laboratory Things” that could be open all hours and available in a real distance learning...
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Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
Languages

Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...Open University Level 2 language course, such as Motive (L203). Choose a video Subtitles in English Subtitles in German No subtitles Transcript Question: Where were the different parts of the Habsburg bodies buried and why were they buried separately? Answer: Wenn ein Habsburger gestorben ist, wurden zunächst einmal aus rein praktischen Gründen die Eingeweide entnommen,...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Open University's Religious Studies courses and qualifications [Thomas Coryat] In Renaissance Europe, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity. Jews had been evicted from England in the 1290s, and were forced out of many other European states in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In those few places where they were tolerated, such as Venice, it was under sufferance,...
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