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The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...Open University and Dr Dan Faircloth and Dr Bruce Kennedy from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They share their passion for this immense machine that will recreate, on a tiny scale, conditions that existed just after the Big Bang. It is hoped the LHC will provide a glimpse of the theoretical Higgs boson and explain the...
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Darwin and Inheritance
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin and Inheritance

...Open University programme first broadcast in 1998, explore the discoveries of scientists such as the botanist Mendel, and the chemist Friedrich Miescher who first identified DNA, and see how they come together with Darwin's theory of evolution to form the concepts which lie at the heart of modern genetics. Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Colin Tudge, John Maynard...
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...open-access journal PLOS ONE, tracked the journey of the PNAS research from its initial scientific publication, through a university-issued press release, into its reception in the traditional news media, online reader comments and blog entries. The analysis systematically documented how, over the course of mediated communication, traditional gender stereotypes are...
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The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background The rather long-winded title for our union is Educational Institute of Scotland – Further Education Lecturers’ Association (EIS-FELA). Put more simply, we are the recognised union for college lecturers in Scotland. In May 2021 we won an important victory over the proposals for the replacement of lecturers by...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...opened in January 2021 as part of Impact Hub Kathmandu, and from the very beginning they made it clear that their priority was to develop a humanitarian agenda to engage members of marginalised groups. Providing access to knowledge, tools and resources to Nepalese people, regardless of their gender, social status, ability or economic means is pivotal and challenging in a...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Open University's law courses. History The English discovery of Barbados occurred in 1625 and it was settled in 1627. I use ‘discover’ in the context of England discovering the island, as opposed to it being discovered as an island. Despite evidence of indigenous populations having been present in Barbados in the past, including Caribs and Arawaks, a visit by the...
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The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...open up the body and move the retained blood around. It’s interesting that the idea of a “disease” worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of closure, that of little internal “mouths” that allowed blood from all over the body to get into the womb in the first...
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Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...opened doors to different music and stranger books. Professor Richard Brown writes about how Bowie influenced his tastes...[David Bowie Street art in Brixton, South London] I first listened to David Bowie aged fourteen in 1981. He was my first foray outside of the puritanical fastnesses of Punk Rock. Punk joyously declared the music of its immediate forebears dated, dead,...
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