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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...Introduction - Please note, this course was written in 2003/2004 therefore some of the information is now outdated. In this free course, Understanding water quality, you will look at the main properties of natural water and how these may be altered by pollutants of various types. Natural water is not just H2O: all natural waters contain dissolved and suspended substances...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Introduction - The law usually lets the judge or the jury decide what to make of the evidence. But there are some pieces of evidence that an ordinary fact-finder would not be expected to know anything about. For example: How is it relevant that the refractive index of a piece of glass found in a suspect’s shoe is a particular value? What is the significance of...
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...projections that non-whites will outnumber whites in the next 30 years. Concurso Nacional de Deletreo en Español had 11 contestants in its first year. In the past it was hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the spelling bee this year, there are 27 students, representing nine states: California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas and...
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...Projects: the Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (1975). Drawing on textual primary sources, she wrote a political and cultural account that might help us to make sense of the Cambridge Group’s recent figures. Their findings might even re-ignite an old debate, about the economic consequences of the Reformation. The reign of Elizabeth was not long...
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...Project Fear’. This may prove to have tragic consequences since it appears increasingly clear that the majority of economic forecasters were in fact correct in their broad assessments of the likely implications of Brexit for sterling, real wages, investment and long-term growth rates, as the Bank of England Governor and the Centre for European Reform have recently...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...projected 5%%u201395% probability intervals for Antarctic sea-level contributions are shown with and without the original MICI representation. RCP 8.5,RCP 4.5 and RCP 2.6 represent very high, intermediate and very low greenhouse gas emission scenarios, respectively. Figure reproduced from Edwards et al. 2019. To summarize, the only reason for the 2016 study to predict...
The case for and against a second referendum
Society, Politics & Law

The case for and against a second referendum

...project, as shown by ongoing discussions around membership of the single market and the customs union. Not only did we not know the answers to such questions at the time of the original referendum, but the vast majority of people couldn’t have fully understood the questions. What really should have appeared on the ballot in 2016 was a series of questions: do you want to...