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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...Student protests (which peaked in 1968) and the sexual revolution were significant expressions of this. Music and musical taste became extremely important to the counterculture. In particular, rock and folk music became its soundtrack. Figure 2 Women's Liberation Parade on 5th Avenue, New York, 16 August 1971...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 3.1 Authenticity -...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...becomes incremental not only in a product, but in a chain of production. It's where the big money lies for companies wanting to keep one step ahead of their competitors without the (in general) higher risks and longer timescales of innovation – 'our powder washes brighter', 'this battery lasts longer' or 'this car is quieter to drive'. Most technological items in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...become the central tenet of the interdisciplinary science of astrobiology. Although there are programmes searching for advanced, intelligent life, for example SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – this is largely focused outside our own Solar System. In this section, and this wider course, we are considering the search for life as investigated by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...OU References Flexman, A.M., Del Vicario, G. and Schwarz, S.K.W. (2007) ‘Dark Green Blood in the Operating Theatre’, The Lancet, vol. 369, p. 1972. Hazes B., Kalk K. H., Hol W. G. J., Magnus K. A., Bonaventura C., Bonaventura J. and Daute Z., (1993) ‘Crystal structure of deoxygenated Limulus polyphemus subunit II hemocyanin at 2.18 A resolution: clues for a...
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Activity 10 mins
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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Article 15 mins
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...becomes surface water or groundwater. The relative proportions of the dissolved substances change and the TDS value increases as a result of these processes. In general, groundwater takes on the chemical properties of the rocks through which it passes. Activity 1 What are the three principal dissolved constituents of river water and both groundwaters in Figures 2c and 3?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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
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