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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...working within what they call ‘the analytic tradition’. This is, unsurprisingly, a tradition that has used the techniques of analysis. Quite what counts as analysis is controversial, but one central method that has been used is the breaking down of complex concepts into simpler components. To take a typical philosophical example, one might start to wonder what...
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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...work environments is incredibly important for addressing gender inequalities. Academics working in Sweden, often put forward in media and popular culture as the place where gender equality is most advanced, tell us that simply “body counting” the number of women doesn’t mean that equality has been achieved. Cultural change takes a lot longer, if it can be achieved...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...work back to the time when there was no daughter, but only the parent, and this give us the age of the rock. This process is called ‘radiometric dating’. Uranium is not the only element used in radiometric dating, there are others too, and between them we have been able to produce hundreds of dates for events in the Earth’s history. Even before radiometric dating...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...work in Buxton’s brewery as ‘they love to drink, but I believe would fire your brewery for a lark as they did burn my wash houses’. Their behaviour would not have been viewed as resistance to their continued enslavement, but as part of the ‘war’ that many slave-owners saw themselves involved in, living in communities where Africans so vastly outnumbered them....
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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...working for the OU. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant, also from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science. It's Elementary: A Chemist's View This podcast explores life at The Open University's Department of Chemistry and Analytical Sciences. We meet Dr Sotiris Missalidis, whose research into chemistry has...
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Ice Cold In Alex
Science, Maths & Technology

Ice Cold In Alex

...work with a 4 tonne truck? We set out to find out... Hand cranking is the old fashioned method for starting a car... The crank shaft of a car is rotated by the engine at a speed depending on how much throttle is applied, measured in rotations per minute (rpm). A typical value is 3000rpm. Gears in a car change the rpm of the crankshaft to turn the wheels at different rates...
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...worked on a North Sea oil platform during his early 20s, and has reported on the major successes and disasters of an industry which remains economically important to Scotland and the UK. But is the North Sea facing a new fight over who controls safety? Has it become a political battleground revealing just how difficult Brexit is going to be? Over the last 40 years almost...
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Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...working on the management of the environment and natural resources – and so developing the ability to communicate with people who are involved in managing the natural environment is a really important thing to ensure that environmental policies are developed and supported by the general public, land managers and politicians. Studying the natural sciences in Welsh means...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr