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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...energy prices continue to roar] Martin Lewis warned us that soaring energy bills were a 'national crisis' on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the soaring didn’t end there!), US politician Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, despite discouragement from allies in the Biden administration, and the Horniman museum in London agreed to return its Benin Bronzes to Nigeria,...
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Article 5 mins
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...energy use is the main component, for travel it is car travel and flights, and for everything else the main components are use of services like health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income,...
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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...energy-saving light bulb itself. Examples of the latter might include solar panels – a radical way of generating domestic electricity, but currently only having incremental impacts because of costs, energy pricing policies and time lag of adoption in the UK. The different categories of innovation are often represented using ‘S’-curves...Organisations, environmental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...solar declination] Solar declination - the seasonal consequence of the 'tilted' Earth's annual movement around the sun. Although complex tables (almanacs) are used to obtain correction factors for any day of the year, you can accurately estimate the appropriate numbers for yourself. For example, if calculating the value at the beginning of May, you would be half-way...
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Article 15 mins
The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...energy collisions will reveal. The audio tracks feature Dr Stephen Serjeant and Dr David Broadhurst from The Open University and Dr Dan Faircloth and Dr Bruce Kennedy from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They share their passion for this immense machine that will recreate, on a tiny scale, conditions that existed just after...
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Audio 27 mins
My career goal: Environment
Nature & Environment

My career goal: Environment

...energy? Find out how you can gather skills and carry out work that will have a real impact on our relationship with the environment...This video explores the conflicts of interest between local people, visitors, quarrying and farming in the Peak District National Park. Park Rangers often try to resolve disagreements such as these. Transcript icould links icould is a site...
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Article 20 mins
Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)

...energy rate, cold forming technique that reshapes metals without physical contact. When an electric current generates pulsed opposing magnetic fields near the metal, a controllable pressure is created...Three main concepts [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)' - see article ] Bulging or expansion ring [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform...
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Article 10 mins
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...Solar Orbiter. This information has enabled astronomers to understand the interplay of energy transport and magnetic fields in our nearest star. We also have a small number of resolved images of nearby giant stars. An example is pi super one Gruis (Figure 7b), which shows similar convective structure on its surface to that of the Sun. [Described image] Figure 7 Stars as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs