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How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...out more about The Open University's Music courses. Here’s a strange question: how many different kinds of instruments are there? Well, the western orchestra has up to thirty different types of instruments. But that does not typically include instruments we recognise every day in popular music, or instruments found in other cultures around the world. It does not include...
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Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...out as the solution was the injunction to ‘Stay home’. In the second phase of the campaign launched in England on 15 May, the problem was reformulated as the continued risk of the coronavirus’ spread and the proposed solution changed into taking responsibility for continuing to control and contain the virus summed up in the slogan: ‘Stay alert’. [stay alert...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...are plastic flotsam, including masks. This is a decisive feature of our times and the latest addendum to the masses of plastic waste features as a warning; sadly, this is the modern way of killing whales. To find out more about Csilla Toldly, head over to their website www.csillatoldy.co.uk [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Download our Chinese characters learning apps
Languages

Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...out more about The Open University's Languages courses and qualifications._ Chinese@OU app has been updated This free Chinese character learning app is developed by the Chinese language team, led by Dr Qian Kan, at The Open University (UK) with interactive activities to help you write, recognise visually and aurally, and memorise some of the most frequently used...
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Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...out on a mass scale, and hundreds of thousands of people who lacked the means to purchase property were displaced from their homes and prohibited from accessing the land they once lived on. Vagrancy laws criminalised access to land in cases where there was no contractual relationship, which gave police the power to arrest people who were not legally bound to property or...
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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...out of 10’ performance. And this huge and sprawling story isn’t about to go away. New ideas will be needed, and innovation requires risk taking. So I recommend that broadcasters should make a clear invitation for new ideas, and each of them should put budget and broadcast slots aside to this end. TV producers have to work in a buyers market because successful...
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Introducing Geography Matters
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Geography Matters

...out on the Environmental Studies, Q99 site. Brains behind the initiative In the PodMag (monthly update of news, views and interviews from the Faculty of Social Sciences) for March, you can listen to an audio recording of the interviews with people behind this project. In this audio, Karen interviews Gillian Rose, lead academic on the project, Nick Bingham, Environmental...
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Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran’s global rehabilitation
Society, Politics & Law

Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran’s global rehabilitation

...out to al-Nimr’s nephew Ali Mohammed al-Nimr in 2015, the withdrawal of a £5.9m prisons contract between the UK Government and the Saudi regime, the rising civilian death toll in its campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. And even as the US continues to sell the Saudis arms and lend them some rhetorical support for their actions in the Middle East, its backing is on...
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