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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...burning fossil fuels, which enhances the greenhouse effect and warms the planet...Session 1: What is ‘engineering the climate’?: 1.2 Modifying the Earth’s energy budget - Geoengineering techniques aim to modify Earth’s ‘energy budget’. The energy budget is similar to a financial budget. If your income is greater than your outgoings, you save money over time....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...out of energy was one of the big features of that report and in ’73 it then became almost a reality in Germany and I think in Europe as a whole, when the oil boycott kicked in. And I can remember we could play on the motorways because on Sunday traffic on motorways was banned, so that energy crisis in the early seventies was the first really big concern about energy,...
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...who’d fallen in love with pigeons or foxes or a little lady who couldn’t get out of her tower block who would call out every day at four (and she was ten stories up), but four or five different foxes would come, she would know all their names, she’d feed them by chucking over sausages out of the balcony to these foxes, who would sit, who’d wait, they’d learnt to sit down on the grass ......
Point estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Point estimation

...out how to obtain the maximum likelihood estimator of an unknown parameter, using calculus. You will need to do lots of differentiation in this section. Section 2 introduces a number of important properties of point estimation...This free course looks at point estimation, that is, the estimation of the value of the parameter of a statistical model by a single number, a...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How much home do you own?
Money & Business

How much home do you own?

...out - but how much home do you own?...Buying a house on a mortgage can be a slow process - especially in the early days of the loan, when a large portion of your monthly payment goes to paying off interest rather than repaying the loan. So just how much of 'your' home do you own year-by-year? This is, of course, just a rough illustration - and is based on certain...
Using digital tools in teaching
Education & Development

Using digital tools in teaching

...out these short animations and accompanying articles on podcasting, social media, and virtual and augmented reality in pedagogy...Find out about The Open University's Open degree How can social media be used in a positive way in an academic setting? How can digital tools be used to engage students? How can podcasts be shared for teaching purposes? Explore these questions...
Sex stats for the British population
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex stats for the British population

...out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. [Illustration of a public park scene, full of people doing various activities.] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox...
Sacking Prime Ministers
Society, Politics & Law

Sacking Prime Ministers

...out. So why do PM’s so rarely leave office on their own terms? What happens when a prime minister’s credibility becomes weakened? The Open University’s Dr. Richard Heffernan, Reader in Government, leads discussions and compares the administrational differences between presidents and prime ministers. Can an American president be forced out of power in the same way as...