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Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(50), 15468-15473. Jordan-Young, R. M., 2010. Brain storm: The flaws in the science of sex differences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This article was written with expert input from Joseph de Lappe, research student at The Open University. More on superheroes...
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...students available in 2022/23. Each scholarship covers the tuition fees for a full OU undergraduate degree, over three years or longer. There are also 50 fee waivers available, which will each cover the cost of one OU Access module starting in Autumn 2022. For more information, follow these links: Experiences of higher education in Ukraine Sanctuary and general resources...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...become the subject of thought, and human beings could reason about it. Example 1 Temperature If you touch a surface, one of the things you will sense is its temperature, i.e. whether it is hot, cold or neither. This is a survival mechanism: if a surface is so hot, or so cold, that it will damage your hand, you need to remove it immediately. But between the extremes of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...becomes clear that the relationship between children’s books and childhood is far from simple; even the bright world of Winnie-the-Pooh carries within it echoes of Milne’s traumatic experiences in the First World War – the need to create a retreatist, idyllic world – and his ambivalence towards real childhood, shown in the oversentimentalised image of Christopher...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...become more familiar with how sinusoids can be created and what happens when the different properties of sinusoids are altered. The activity has been pre-loaded with the required settings to create a basic sine wave. When you click on ‘Generate’, you will see how a sine wave can be created by rotating a line of length a at a constant speed about a fixed point O. As...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...become my fireplace. MARCUS BADGER: So, if we come out here, we’ve got glass. Glass like this, it’s from sand, just ordinary sand that would be, like, on a beach. And that’s the sediment. And that’s what forms sedimentary rocks. So this is basically just rocks formed from bits of other rocks. ANNE JAY: Come on, let’s see what we can find in the bathroom. This is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...become smarter - but there are also security risks. Brian Nussbaum is reassured that we're already talking about the potential downsides...The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions have been affected as quickly and as deeply as cities. The emergence of...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...become instruments of power in markets and societies; and it argues that the market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics. Particular attention is paid to how central banks expend huge efforts on crafting messages that can channel expectations and influence...
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