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World-Changing Women: Cynisca
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Cynisca

...physical exercise. Their revealing sportswear earned them the nick-name 'thigh-showers'. However, at Olympia, women were still not allowed to participate in the most prestigious games festival in the ancient world. Cynisca was sister to King Agesilaus of Sparta, who was a successful military leader. Her story reflects Spartan women’s increased wealth and interest in...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...Physical crushing requires a lot of energy, especially when dealing with complex circuit boards with a variety of components. Smelting circuit boards is more economical and feasible,” says R. Parthasarathi, managing director of E-Parisara, one of India’s leading e-waste recycling companies. According to the United Nations University, the world produced 42 million...
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Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

...Physics of Brass Instruments How much of the sound is down to the player, and how much of it is down to the instrument they are blowing through. Experiments in Acoustics A lab experiment investigates the way that lips vibrate in a brass instrument mouthpiece. Brass Instrument Development Who drives change? Is it composers, inventors or performers? The latest scientific...
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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...Physical Sciences Liz Parvin nominates physicist Richard Feynman as her 'Unlikely Leader'. Nicola Adams Senior Lecturer in Sport and Fitness Ben Oakley nominates Olympic Boxing Champion Nicola Adams as his 'Unlikely Leader.' Unlikely Leaders Discussion In this discussion, to accompany the Unlikely Leaders series, three OU academics discuss a modern approach to leadership...
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What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...physical distancing. Unless and until a vaccine and effective drugs are developed, minimising contact is currently our only tool to get on top of this pandemic. It is important to learn lessons from the international response to the crisis. As the UK prepares for the impact of the peak of the epidemic, life in China is gradually returning to normal, as the lockdown and...
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Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?
History & The Arts

Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?

...physical revenues are matched. That is, people are still very much engaged in buying physical albums. But which albums are being bought is clearly changing: the top-selling album of the last year was the official soundtrack to Disney’s animated film Frozen. And the album isn’t as embedded in musical culture as we might think. If we rewind a few generations, it was all...
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What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
Science, Maths & Technology

What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?

...physics discoveries of the past 100 years. But what are they? [Computer simulation of two merging black holes producing gravitational waves] Computer simulation of black holes colliding To best understand the phenomenon, let’s go back in time a few hundred years. In 1687 when Isaac Newton published his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, he thought of the...
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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...physical shop, online. She was clear that they had never intended to run an online store – but with the growth of eBay and Amazon, visitors to their shop started to dwindle and she and her partner realised that they had to try something new. She described how they had some resources – a large stock of specialist books and a home that had a large garage they could use...
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