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Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...Open University. Thank you for reading my first article here on OpenLearn. I’m part of a team of British and French scientists with a new study published in Nature about Antarctic ice sheet instability. Here is a Guardian article I wrote as an introduction to our work. I also recorded a video explaining our focus on Antarctica and the uncertainty surrounding the impact...
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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...Open University's Science courses. Why do astronauts float on the space station? Contrary to popular belief, it isn't because there's no gravity. The gravitational pull of the Earth is almost as strong in the orbit of the International Space Station as it is on you as you read this. Astronauts are experiencing weightlessness because they are in a microgravity environment....
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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...Open University's Rules of the Game...This article is adapted from The Rules Of The Game, a BBC/Open University co-production from 2002. As such, some topical references might have dated. We're leaving the article here for historical context. See our latest content about football [PY with a football] A football team is not like other businesses – it can never be in a...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...Open University's Social Sciences courses. Background The American corporation Timex first came to Dundee in 1946, setting up with eleven workers in the back of a converted farm building. At its peak in the 1970s, Timex had become one of the largest employers in the city, employing thousands of workers at four sites across Dundee. Most of the Timex workforce were women...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” (p. 207) Possible projects that a critical pedagogy approach might look at could include: Can school councils support articulate pupils who will engage as better citizens? Do they provide...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to...
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World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

...open to a young woman who had given birth to a child out of wedlock and had then been abandoned by the father. Unable to see a familial or economic future for herself at home, Marie-Louise Victoire Girardin escaped parental disgrace by disguising herself as a man. She joined a scientific expedition to Tasmania as a ship’s steward, calling herself Louis Girardin....
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World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen

...open to women were limited. Although the Church was organised as a male hierarchy, it did offer women the benefit of education and the means to attain some measure of autonomy. One woman who took advantage of these opportunities was Hildegard of Bingen. Born in the Rhineland, the tenth child of noble parents, Hildegard was educated from the age of eight at the Benedictine...
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