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The hidden world of everyday coding
Digital & Computing

The hidden world of everyday coding

...energy. It’s coding working quietly behind the scenes to make everyday life smoother and keeping us from awkward lift conversations! Even your washing machine is powered by coding Software tells it exactly how long to wash, rinse and spin your clothing, and sensors help it to decide how much water to use. All this is everyday coding making your life easy, fresh and...
Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...energy, thanks to E = mc²) follow these straight paths in curved space. The experimental proof of this occurred during a solar eclipse in 1919 where starlight was observed to be bent by the sun. The amount of bending was predicted by Einstein, and not by the standard “Newtonian” theory. So matter follows the curvature of space, but we know matter is the source of...
Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...energy production facilities. Then-Secretary Ken Salazar completed the separation of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement from MMS in October 2011. Oil flooding from the ruptured well during the BP spill, June 3, 2010. Officials at this new agency reviewed multiple investigations and studies of the BP spill and offshore drilling safety issues, including...
How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...energy into fighting them, resisting them, running from them or getting overwhelmed, we invest our energy into the things and people that really matter to us. This allows a much better quality of life, even when the external stressors haven’t gone away (such as living with a chronic health condition, or where external events cause us anxiety). 5: Noticing our thinking A...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...energy of what they are being transported in is pretty constant. Grains vary between being 1mm and 10cm in size. A ‘poorly sorted’ texture indicates the energy of what they are being transported in varies in time and space – sometimes it can move big heavy grains, other times only smaller grains. Environment of deposition. Sandy beach material that has been...
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...energy expenditure will 'make the minimum demand on the meagre pasture around her and she has a fertile dormant egg within her womb ready to start its development just as soon as conditions improve'...Studying mammals: A winning design: 4 Milk production (lactation) - In this section, you are presented with a fairly complex diagram, Figure 1. The first thing to do when...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...Energy levels are demonstrated in the context of a sodium lamp in Video 3. Watch it now and then do Activity 4. HELEN: So in the last experiment, we absolutely established that light can behave as a wave, but now we're going to show you something that shows that also lights can behave as a particle. So here I have an experiment which actually OU students get a chance to...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...energy, to name but a few. Innovations may not be as environmentally positive as the word innovation suggests. All this is both heartening and disheartening in that it presents a problem. What is innovation? We will consider an exact definition in a moment, but the next activity prompts you to reflect on what you currently understand by innovation in relation to...