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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...world. In 1997, Wilmut and Campbell created Polly, the first sheep with a human gene in every cell of its body, meanwhile President Bill Clinton banned the use of federal funds for cloning research for five years. Since then scientists have successfully cloned a host of animals, including mice, cattle, goats, and pigs. Fears of reproductive cloning in the future were...
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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...world. There was also a developed culture which had been exposed to Hellenistic influences. A good example of this is the Punic royal funerary monument at Thugga, which combines Punic and Hellenistic features (see Figures 1 and 2). When Numidia became a part of the Roman empire, we might assume that Roman cultural influence would have become more pronounced and that...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...world around them. Plants do not undergo any experiences; they are not ‘awake’. While they certainly exhibit responses to various sorts of stimuli, it would be stretching it to say they perceive things in their environment or that they have inner experiences or sensations, that they can, for example, feel pain. Animals, of course, are sentient beings, or at least many...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...world of stuff - In his book Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (2007), Rich Gold calls the totality of designed things we have around us ‘the plenitude’. He looks around his kitchen and tries to count the number of things there are: I can easily count a thousand, but the actual answer is fractal. Every appliance, every tool, even every food (certainly if you...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...world, and propel you to the cutting edge of where the design discipline is heading. [Described image] Figure 2 Algorithmically generated wallpaper pattern At the start of the course in Section 3: Playing with Code, you will learn some of the basic principles and skills of algorithmic design such as how to draw shapes and control colour by tweaking some code examples. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...world around us. [Described image] Figure 2 Close up of someone using touch and gesture to interact with a learning application about white sharks on an iPad Consider how the interactive maps available on smartphones have changed people’s relationship with and experience of their surroundings. Do you remember what it was like trying to find your way around a new city...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...world. For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been working on the recent Rosetta mission here at The Open University. For me and the team, the 12th of November 2014 was an incredible day. It was the day that the Philae Lander finally landed on the comet after its 10-year, 4-billion mile journey around our solar system. On-board, within the Philae Lander, was the Ptolemy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...World Health Organization (2002), they concluded that in high-income countries nearly half of the total current burden of disease (i.e. the number of years of life lost to disease and the number of years lived with disability as a result of disease) is attributable to unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, alcohol misuse, poor diet and a lack of physical exercise. The term...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs