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The Z Files: Jon Chase
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Jon Chase

...course you don’t just communicate in normal words you rap. Jon Chase Yeah I rap about it. “Some of the biggest questions that’s ever been asked, do you know where life’s going, can you tell where it starts? We’ve been on earth many years and we’re still producing answers, as time passes collective knowledge advances.” Benjamin Zephaniah Is there an old...
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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...course and the products may be sub-standard. This increases the risk of resistance.” For at least fifteen years, we’ve known about these socioeconomic origins of antimicrobial resistance. Other studies have revealed problems with mislabeled or expired or counterfeit drugs. But the clearestlink between poverty and the rise of antimicrobial resistance is that poor...
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My OpenLearn account

...courses, track your progress and share your achievements via your profile page. You can read about how we handle your personal data in our Privacy Statement. How do I create an account? To create an account, click the green 'Create account / Sign in' button found in the top right-hand corner of the OpenLearn site. If you are on a mobile device then you will need to click...
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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...course for European integration would be plotted, leaders spent a weekend talking earnestly about their desire to reconnect with ordinary people – yet they did so locked inside a castle, on a hilltop, cordoned off from the city and its inhabitants. What follows, however, is a well-evidenced and reasoned proposal for new forms of democratic participation in the European...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same thing tomorrow. It really...
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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...course of great general interest, because whatever else we do, we all live in this psycho social world. And we, all of us (I think) also suffer from a good deal of semantic pollution - misplaced ideas - many of which have got carried over by illicit extension from the natural sciences. So the end of the spectrum that concerns me, I think, really concerns us all. World...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from...
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Ice Cold In Alex
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Ice Cold In Alex

...course, they have to use the crank shaft of their 1930s truck to winch it backwards up the sand dune! Ingenius! But is it possible? Transcript Hollywood Science busters, Jonathan Hare and Robert Llewellyn, seek out an ageing Morris to prove their point with great success, but will it work with a 4 tonne truck? We set out to find out... Hand cranking is the old fashioned...
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