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Cognitive Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

...course DD303 Cognitive psychology... Cognitive Psychology A short introduction to this album. What is consciousness? What does consciousness mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries. Consciousness: the central psychological question The difficulties of explaining consciousness scientifically. The evolution of...
Indian Raga Music
History & The Arts

Indian Raga Music

...course AA317, Words and music... Indian Raga Music A short introduction to this album The Tabla Musician Shubhasis Bhattacharjee describes the Tabla, and how it is played. Tabla Solo Shubhasis Bhattacharjee shows how compositions are put together using the Tabla and his voice. The Alap Debashish Bhattacharjee plays alap and sings. He explains the story behind the music,...
Managing for Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Managing for Sustainability

...course T867: Managing for sustainability... Source planning in waste Chris Murphy gives a brief overview of the waste industry from his experience. Source planning in occupational safety Joe Taylor explains the significance of planning from a Health and safety perspective. What is an environmental audit? Why is an environmental audit important? What is Life Cycle...
The Rainbow analysed
Science, Maths & Technology

The Rainbow analysed

...course MU120 Open mathematics... The rainbow analysed introduction The rainbow analysed introduction Aristotle's theory In about 300BC Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed a theory to why the rainbow has such a specific shape. A full circle rainbow? Aristotle's model also tells us that if we are high enough we can see the full rainbow circle. This is often witnessed from...
Exploring the science of climate
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the science of climate

...course Exploring Science... Exploring the science of climate A brief introduction to this album. 18th century weather observers The Mannheim group of amateur scientists starts to systematically gather data about the weather. Records of global climate What scientific and natural records reveal about global climate over the last 150 years. Climatic evidence from sediments...
Coping with Depression
Society, Politics & Law

Coping with Depression

...Open University course D240 Counselling: exploring fear and sadness... Coping with Depression Stephen Fry, Trisha Goddard and Jim Brown share their experiences with anxiety and depression. Depression: diagnosis and stigma A look at being diagnosed with a mental illness. Depression and drug use Several people share their experiences of prescribed and recreational drugs....
Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...free of charge in real terms. On paper, this is a golden age for gilts, the bonds issued by the UK Treasury named after their certificates’ gilded edge. The government’s cost of borrowing, as measured by yields on those gilts, has fallen steadily from more than 12% in the early 1990s to less than 1%. Economic slowdowns, political shocks, the 2008 global financial...
Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...free fall, and being in the absence of a gravitational field, say in deep space. Transcript This principle led Einstein to consider incorporating gravity into the framework of his special theory of relativity, culminating in his General Theory of Relativity. At face value, that doesn’t appear such a difficult thing to do. Until this point, the properties of objects in...