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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...think of this Relation [of Holmes’s], and if the said Captain seems a sincere man whom one can absolutely trust. For it must be said that I am amazed that the clocks were sufficiently accurate to allow him by their means to find such a tiny island [as Fuego]. On 6 March, Huygens was still pressing Moray for ‘something of the detail of what you have learned from Mr...
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...thinking about language. Firstly, however, some useful ‘tools of the trade’ – you'll take a look at some vital foundations of English grammar. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in English Language...Exploring the English language: Learning Outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the English language has...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...think of any examples of when you might come across decimal numbers in everyday life? If you’re dealing with money and the decimal point is not placed correctly, then the value will be completely different, for example, £5.55 could be mistaken for £55.50. Likewise with weights and measures: if the builder in the last activity made a wrong measurement, the whole...
Free course 48 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...system, this wall is the most tendentious. In the bottom right corner it depicts: campesinos (tenant farmers) labouring in a field under the watchful eyes of armed overseers; two murdered campesinos above them, one hanged for being a communist and the other for being an agrarian reformer; fascist-looking police suppressing a strike; above that a worker addressing a crowd;...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...think it means when applied to Ancient Greek and Latin? Jot down your thoughts in the box below. Discussion Your answer will no doubt differ from the one below, but you might have noted that the word ‘classical’ can be used to describe some of the following: something old and traditional that has stood the test of time (and is, we might say, ‘timeless’) an...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...system. They have a skeleton of calcium carbonate, silica, or, as in some bath sponges, horny organic material. Water passes in through the sponge's many surface pores, often to the central cavity of a sack-like body, and out through a large hole at the top. Some have a stalk (Figure 1a), others are encrusting and irregular in shape. Sponges feed by filtering off minute...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...system. Platform 5: Leading and Managing nursing care and working teams. Outcome 5.8 Support and supervise students in the delivery of nursing care, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback, and evaluating and documenting their performance. Outcome 5.9: Demonstrate the ability to challenge and provide constructive feedback about care delivered by others in...
Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...think that it is possible, which can muddle understanding. For instance, we cannot calculate the probability that a nurse has harmed a patient, or, that a tennis player has deliberately lost a game. What we can do is calculate the probability of seeing a given outcome were it true that the loss of the match was entirely accidental – and that is what statistics are quite...