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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...lifestyle and technical changes, but because their choices send signals to government and industry, as do political actions such as campaigning and voting on environmental issues. Study a free course This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...study the cold hard economics. And yet… and yet… There are, in the bean-counting, cost-cutting, eye-on-the-bottom-line world of modern media economics, still a few factors which give one pause for thought. One is that the new paper, at 50p (25p to start with) will be cheap – so will potentially appeal to the Lidl-obsessed middle classes as much as the cash-strapped...
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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...study where researchers analysed best-selling children’s e-books sold for the 0–8-year-olds age range in Hungary, Turkey, Greece and the Netherlands, a quality criterion was also whether the e-book was available in the local language. To ensure that e-books are developed with more research-based quality features, we need a close collaboration between researchers and...
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...study in New Zealand found that in a post-trial interview, real jurors who sat on sexual assault trials commonly mentioned rape myths in their discussions, suggesting that rape myths may inform story construction and verdicts. Jury bias: what can be done There are several potential alternatives, such as judge-only trials, or a mixed jury with legal professionals and...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...studies) by events such as protest. This has consequences both for how politics and research methods are imagined and practised, particularly if the dominant idea at the heart of each is ‘representation’. For FM 101 in Hong Kong, politics was not so much about the representation of demands or positions but the production of a new political field, itself fabricated...
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Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever
History & The Arts

Musicians, loops and the longest piece ever

...studying our Open University music degree are asked to experiment with the digital equivalent of Reich’s physical tape loops. Any sound whatsoever, once recorded, can be manipulated in this way to create new timbres and reveal hidden rhythms. Here, for instance, is the sound of a dog eating a carrot: [Dog eating a carrot] It is an easy task for a computer to make a...
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How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...study it would be that of ‘timbre’. Above, is an image of uniform ‘curvy’ waves to demonstrate instrumental sound. This is a massive simplification. Actual sound waves can come in many shapes which have different sonic effects (the waves in figure above represent sine waves which have a very pure and artificial sound). Any single sound we hear also contains many...
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Is sleep the secret of success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is sleep the secret of success?

...sports and fitness, find videos, articles, games and free courses on OpenLearn. This topic will be covered further in a new Open University module coming soon. If you're interested in studying Sports and Fitness formally, explore more courses and qualifications we offer in this subject area. This article was first published on the OU Sports & Fitness blog. Transcript...
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