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Systems Thinking: Diagramming Tutorials
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems Thinking: Diagramming Tutorials

...Open University courses. Systems thinking practitioners at the OU have supported and developed the use of a range of diagramming techniques as the principal tools through which visual modelling and communication can happen. The following diagramming techniques each have videos providing animated tutorials – one video describing What the technique is and at least one...
Why do Christmas crackers go bang?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do Christmas crackers go bang?

...Open University's Chemistry Department explains why they go bang in this article...Here's one to share during this year's Christmas dinner... The bright wrapping of the Christmas cracker contains a cardboard tube. Attached to the side of the tube inside the cracker is a strip of paper. This paper has been treated with a tiny amount of gunpowder – an explosive mixture of...
Wimbledon - The Championships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wimbledon - The Championships

...Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. The Wimbledon Championships Read our tennis content, offering an insight into what it's like competing at the highest level in sport. Game-changing FREE courses We've put together some of our top FREE courses - perfect if you're a budding athlete, a coach or mentor, psychologist, or if you just want to find...
Write around the world - the map!
History & The Arts

Write around the world - the map!

...Open University's Creative writing courses and qualifications. _ Discover birthplaces and resting-places of authors and the stories behind their books. Go long-haul to a palace in 11th century Japan, and staycation in a converted garage in 20th century Wales. Peep into writers’ bedrooms and studies to imagine them at work. Explore the extraordinary places that have...
Building Stories
Science, Maths & Technology

Building Stories

...Open University's Design and Innovation qualification. In the interactive you will meet Sir Roger Foster and get to know his building for the Wills, Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich. The secrets of Sir Terry Farrell's MI6 Building in London will be revealed, and Sir Richard Rogers will show you around his Senedd, the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff. Each story...
Rhyolite
Science, Maths & Technology

Rhyolite

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications Rhyolite is a fine-grained extrusive igneous rock or volcanic rock. It is pale coloured, often light grey, tan or pinkish. Rhyolite is made up of quartz and feldspar crystals, and occasionally contains some mafic (dark coloured) minerals. Usually the crystals are too small to see without magnification, but occasionally...
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Inuit Throat Singing
History & The Arts

Inuit Throat Singing

...Open University course AA317, Words and music... Inuit Throat Singing A short introduction to this album. Tanya Tagaq – Throat Singing The background to throat singing and an example song – husky slipping on ice Learning throat singing How Culture within Singing What Tanya's singing means to her, and how her culture is encapsulated within it. The sounds of throat...
Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...Open University course A151 Making sense of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany...