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Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...public awareness of the problem was heightened by widespread toxic blue-green bacterial blooms (commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as algal blooms) in standing and slow-flowing freshwaters. Figure 1.4 shows blue-green bacteria (cyanobacteria) growing at the margins of a lake. Cyanobacteria are not typical bacteria, not only because some of them are photosynthetic, but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...public perception (Samuel and Tenenbaum, 2011). These events all provide opportunity for disruption in their athletic career and require the ability to adapt and adjust. However, it could equally be argued that lower level athletes face greater challenges negotiating transitions. One reason for this is because lower level athletes are more likely to have to juggle...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...publics and especially people in local communities. What does place and belonging mean to the participants in your previous installations? And how is affinity to place and living together expressed through oral declarations? Have there been any particular themes? Lucia: Isolation and urban environment … Memory and nostalgia… You have to differentiate between nostalgia...
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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...public to issue their judgement on his time in office, Varoufakis said: If only that were so! Voters are being asked to endorse Alexis Tsipras’ decision, on the night of their majestic referendum verdict, to overturn it; to turn their courageous No into a capitulation, on the grounds that honouring that verdict would trigger a Grexit. This is not the same as calling on...
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Article 10 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...public ministry as Archbishop of Cape Town. His sermons were always challenging, electrifying, solemn, and fun in equal measure, he had a gift of delivering a message thoughtfully and was also very capable of poking fun at himself and others. [Christmas Day 1990 outside St George’s Cathedral: Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Anna and John Page] Christmas Day 1990 outside St...
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Article 10 mins
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...publication of English translations of his work and the impact of his public readings established him in the eyes of poetry lovers in Scotland, Ireland and England, as well as further afield, as a major poet. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...The poetry of Sorley MacLean: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...we really need you to make sure that these algorithms have encoded in them a sense of the public life, a sense of civic responsibility. We need you to make sure that they're transparent enough that we can see what the rules are that determine what gets through our philtres. And we need you to give us some control so that we can decide what gets through and what doesn't, because I think we really need the internet to be that......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cultures
Languages

Cultures

...public pour ces musiques, les musiques traditionnelles se sont sans cesse renouvelées au point d’être aujourd’hui qualifiées de «musiques actuelles», au même titre que le rock ou la techno. Mais comment ces musiques peuventelles être à la fois traditionnelles et actuelles? C’est ce à quoi vous allez réfléchir pendant la première partie de cette session....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs