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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...such as War and Peace indicate Tolstoy struggled with the meaning of life. This piece explores his pondering of life and death. ...[Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana", 1908, the first color photo portrait in Russia.] Various characters in Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace have sudden epiphanies relating to the banality of their existence. Early on, Prince Andre tries to
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Article 15 mins
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...work might go in the future...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed...
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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...working with peers worldwide on health or environmental projects, ethical reasoning to weigh the societal impacts of technologies like artificial intelligence, collaborative problem-solving for tackling sustainability challenges, and policy awareness to understand how evidence shapes international agreements. Education, especially at the secondary and higher levels, plays...
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Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...working alongside a team of detectives, and explore how psychology can be applied to an investigation? In this four-week course, you’ll explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries. You’ll become a detective investigating a murder as you join two fictional detectives...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...social and political organisation - here we have a ‘pagus’ of Roman citizens and a native ‘civitas’, in the city of Thugga. These two groups lived together in the city but had different legal rights and forms of local government with the traditions of the Civitas persisting from the pre-Roman period. These two communities were united in AD205 when the city was...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...work. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science...Seeing the light: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts about language, concepts and principles relating to the principles of design of a home understand how to extract information from sources such...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...works of art and architecture. This was a time when objects, commodities, ideas, designs, and technologies circulated over long distances, crossed boundaries and travelled between cultures, with significant consequences for the visual arts. Which brings us to the discussion (which I'll be moderating live between 10-11pm on Thursday 29 March). Join in the discussion by...
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Article 5 mins
Hyperforge process
Science, Maths & Technology

Hyperforge process

...work steel forging dies are coated with graphite before each forging and pre-heated to 250˚C using cartridge heaters. Die life in excess of 300,000 forgings. Medium to high production rates of 180–250 components h-1. Typical products include spider cranks for bicycles and small connecting rods for internal combustion (IC) engines. Materials: Low cost ingot feedstock is...
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