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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...sources away from fossil fuels to biofuels. Land acquisition, or ‘land grab’ as it is often called, offers important lessons about the way that environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues at an increasingly global scale. The issue illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in complex connections that link different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...sources. In this section you will consider what has been learned through research with people who have had an operation that splits the left hemisphere of the brain from the right hemisphere of the brain...Starting with psychology: 2.2 The story of the split brain patients - A surgical procedure that cuts through the corpus callosum has provided evidence to support the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...opened up neurology to the everyday world. Despite Sacks’s popularity now, he had a slow start, with his first book Migrainenot raising much interest either with his medical colleagues or the reading public. Not least, perhaps, because compared to his later works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his...
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Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Professor Andy Watson interview Key RH = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer AW = Professor Andy Watson, Royal Society Research Professor, Exeter University Participant RH This is Andy Watson. Andy, tell me, you’ve seen Nic Lewis, what’s nice about it? I’m thinking in terms of the previous episodes with climate sceptics,...
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Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes
Education & Development

Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes

...about intergenerational projects and practice can be found here: Linking Generations Northern Ireland Linkage Bristol The European Map of Intergenerational Learning (EMIL) Like this subject? See what the OU has to offer The Open University also offers a range of related modules and qualifcations in working with young people. We also offer free courses on this subject....
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...opened. Eight polling companies published “final” estimates of referendum voting intention based on interviewing that concluded no more than four days before polling day. Although two companies did anticipate that Leave would win, and one reckoned the outcome would be a draw, the remaining five companies all put Remain ahead. No company even managed to estimate...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...open and inclusive social change. Forging new worlds through interdisciplinary research Over the series of blogs, our key methodological question will be to ask how methods can shape the state of the world, rather than simply describe how the world is constituted, or monitor its workings. We will discuss how methods do not only have technical requirements and objective...
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Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result
Society, Politics & Law

Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result

...opened the path for Alexis Tsipras. And the situation continued. Between January and July 2015, Europe refused to reopen talks. Now it’s September and the new support package that was discussed this summer has led to the further postponement of debt negotiations. If Europe insists on repayment, there will be fresh crises and the problem will not be resolved. Why does...
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