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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano. When you look at enough minerals in enough rocks, you read the letters and the words, the sentences, paragraphs and chapters recorded within them; you can piece together a story and tell the biography of our entire planet. Love science? Go further with the OU...
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...become alienated from it only through the process of repression (p. 241). Another facet of the uncanny in eighteenth and early nineteenth fiction occurs when characters are presented with versions of themselves, whether it is through the appearance of twins, mirror images, shadows, corpses, or even portraits. Uncertainty about whether an object is alive or not is a...
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Article 45 mins
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...becomes a point of reference or implied authority. The use of a particular group of instruments for a particular type of music may also place it in a tradition, so a singer, lead guitar, bass guitar and drums might be considered traditional for a rock band. Sometimes the word tradition is used to imply something that is not new. If you had been asked about musical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...become, as a young science journalist, although he was a geneticist and a very well-known geneticist, he was interested in education and so he was really keen to get that story out and his family was there during the sit-in and everything that happened. So when we did a documentary called Windy Bay looking particularly at Clayoquot Sound and the fact that you can’t...
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Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping students achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The graduating nature of the courses means that learners can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...become emaciated, as were the Tay Eiders. Hartung (1967) has shown experimentally that the energy metabolism of oiled ducks does increase markedly to make up for the extra heat loss. As this would require twice the normal food intake to maintain, their body fats are used up instead. Only if internal damage is not severe and body fats are still present may a bird survive....
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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...becoming a consumer entity in their own right as the teen bedroom culture reaches its zenith. Just describe this movement towards, as it were, and its relation in a way, to the growth in electronics because that was critical, we’ve already had a reference to the radio, but the way in which these elements came together. Jason Reid: Well there’s a few ways it actually...
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...becoming more competitive. On the other hand, there are two other drivers which are also pushing the clean energy technologies in addition to our climate problem. These are: one, is the local pollution in the cities in major emerging countries, which do require clean energy technologies to address those problems; and finally, the energy security is important issue, and...
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