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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 4: Texture, dynamics and structure: Introduction - This week you will learn about how to listen for three new elements of music – texture, dynamics and structure. These three elements bring together aspects of what you have already learned about rhythm, melody,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...human numbers, I mean sex is fun, people like having children, that is absolutely basic. Climate change obviously has become … climate change fatigue we have, people actually don’t want to know about that. I think what I felt, the reason I did Dubai was Dubai seems to me the worst example of excess on the planet. The greed, the consumerism, the pollution … just no...
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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...human wretchedness which lay along the High Street, Saltmarket, and Briggate, and constitute the bulk of that district known as the 'Wynds and Closes of Glasgow', that all sanitary evils exist in perfection. They consist of ranges of narrow closes, only some four or five feet in width, and of great length. The houses are so lofty that the direct light of the sky never...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...human practices of ear-piercing, circumcision and decorative body scars. These characters, which are acquired deliberately during the course of an individual's life, are not inherited by that individual's offspring even though the practice may have been carried out for hundreds of generations. Likewise, a plant that has grown particularly large in a patch of good ground,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...resource. The next section introduces this resource...Electronic applications: 3.9 Digital filtering in practice - You are now going to use an interactive resource to add Gaussian noise to a noise-free (or ‘clean’) data signal. The noisy data signal is passed to a detector, which determines whether received samples are binary zeros or ones. The added noise causes the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...humans. By looking at the growth of yeast you will learn about how to control an experiment, and about the biological process called respiration. This is when living things consume food to grow. We look forward to you joining the discussion about your experimental results in the forums. Welcome to Week 3. This week, you will be conducting experiments using living...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...Human beings are pretty fragile. We can really go off the deep end sometimes, and that’s generally because life has just got too much for people. And it just gets too heavy. And it’s a slow journey back. And once you’ve regained your inner stability, it’s very important to maintain it. LOUIS: It’s like I’m not there yet because I’m not through my therapy....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...little pieces of other rocks, stuck together with some kind of cement. Your igneous and metamorphic rocks will have the grains actually interlocking. And your metamorphic rocks might have some kind of alignment, but you'll often have to step back to see it. Good luck, and happy hunting! Like geology? Find out more with these FREE resources Study geo-sciences with the OU...
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Video 5 mins