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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...learned about management from presenting The Bottom Line over the years? Watch Read Martin Bean: Lord Reith famously said that the BBC’s mission should be to educate, to inform and to entertain. In Evan Davis, the BBC has found someone who can do all three with remarkable ease and wonderful effectiveness. The mission to education is what binds the OU and the BBC...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...learn the crucial lesson from us, even though they spent three hours grilling me and others, and that is that this could happen to any mortgage banks, and so other mortgage banks expanded their business after what happened to us, and a year later exactly the same thing happened to them. By then of course, the Bank of England had learned how to cope with it over a weekend...
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Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...learn about how this can be done, because the necessary profusion of small details would make it harder for you to understand the main ideas. Instead, the precise mathematical ideas behind calculus are covered in the subject area known as real analysis. You might like to study this subject at a later time. Newton and Leibniz The fundamental ideas of calculus were...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...learned of where our science wasn’t good enough? I’m thinking of, you know, we’ve realised the oceans are much significant than we thought, we’ve been caught out by the tipping point, give me an honest appraisal, do you think, of where science has been found wanting and then we’ll move on to where it’s been successful. TL: I think we always knew that we...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...learning basic camera techniques). But then after that, I was kind of being let loose into the wild, so to speak. It’s kind of funny, my original plan was just to do retail, save some money up, and buy a camera. But it turned out, that where I’d planned to go they didn’t want me . So I had to go early and do it. Looking back on it, I’m glad I did because...
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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...physiology. * Population The total number of people or organisms in a specific area. * Spontaneous generation Or abiogenesis, is the idea that life, rather than evolving over many millions of years from the primordial soup, was started by an outside factor - some theories suggest it was seeded by extraterrestrial impact from an asteroid impact. Take your learning further...
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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...learned to realize that in an interaction between two people that you know there exists different levels of the truth. There's my truth there’s your truth and actually somewhere we might meet in the middle. So the truth is it's philosophically complex. Tony Thorne The word lie is actually quite unusual in one particular way. And that is that there are almost no ways of...
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Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: summarise and identify descriptions of the principal features of the main lithotectonic units of the British Isles, namely the Precambrian Basement, the Caledonian Orogenic Belt, the Variscan Orogenic Belt, the Older Cover and the Younger Cover identify any of the main terranes making up the British...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs