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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course concentrates on describing objects. You will be reading and writing descriptions and considering why descriptions are important. Throughout the course you will be exploring how things and words written about things are inextricably linked. You will focus on an object in isolation from the society which made it and work on developing...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...Introduction - This free course, Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts, aims to describe what goes into making and selling a t-shirt: which resources, which markets, who is involved, the income people get, the income and value they create. You will explore these questions at different stages of the production of a t-shirt, and will use concepts from economics...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...Introduction - In this free course, Understanding economic inequality, you will explore one of the most pressing challenges of our times – inequality. You will explore different debates on the causes, trends and consequences of inequality, and what can be done about it. You will be encouraged to reflect on your personal experiences of inequality before looking at how...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...manage long distances in the pool is robbing us of the chance to see one of the world's greatest athletes in her element: The most accurate way to describe Katie Ledecky is unstoppable. The American distance swimmer and Rio Olympics favorite doesn’t just beat her opponents by a couple hundredths of a second or an extra half stroke. Her winning margin in races is often...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...manage to do all that without using universe. Evolution is often used as a kind of universal metaphor, and that's a real danger. I'm often reminded of the fact, not many people know this, that the United States' Constitution with the President and House of Representatives and the Senate and the like, was actually designed as a model of the universe, of the solar system....
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Article 30 mins
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...Project My name’s Richard Brock, I’m an independent filmmaker, was with the Natural History Unit for 35 years, worked on Life on Earth and Living Planet with David Attenborough and now do my own films almost entirely about conservation. What inspired me… Well I suppose it was way back to school days when I was birdwatching and catching butterflies as you did then,...
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Video 30 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...project? But nevertheless, in the early modern past you had status the higher up the royal chain of command you were, and the closer you were to the body of the King or the Queen. So if you were the groom of the stole, which actually meant the groom of the stool, you were the person who carried the King's chamber pot. So to you the smell of his chamber pot was the sweet...
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Article 30 mins
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...Introduction - Until the 1980s, the icy satellites of the outer planets were scarcely thought of as places where life could ever have existed. Few could have imagined that one of them, Europa, would within twenty years have become the rival of Mars as a priority for astrobiological study. This course recounts the history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs