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Ever Wondered About... Pizza?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Pizza?

...opened in 1905 in New York City, but the real demand for pizza was sparked by GIs returning from Italy after World War II. Science The Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana or ‘The Association of True Neapolitan Pizza’ maintains strict guidelines its members must follow. The pizza dough must be made only with flour, natural yeast or brewer's yeast, salt and water and...
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The delivery service to fix your brain
Science, Maths & Technology

The delivery service to fix your brain

...Open University PhD student Conor McQuaid explains one way in which scientists can target the delivery of drugs...Delivery/Targeting When you order a pizza, they need to know your address and have some way of getting to that exact place or else your neighbour could end up enjoying that cheesy goodness. We have the same issue with certain drugs, in that we need to get it...
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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...systems thinking growing, we are doing all we can to provide people with opportunities to learn about how it works and what it can do to help. We have created this hub as part of that response, to showcase some of the many teaching resources we have developed over the years. You can learn more about the history of systems thinking at The Open University in this article....
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...open license that allows others to make use of your work in a way that allows them to credit you without having to request permission each time. I would personally recommend the Creative Commons licenses, as most multimedia platforms like Vimeo and YouTube allow them. There are also open source platforms like the Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, and ma where you can...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...Open University. Like most inherited rare diseases, CLN3 disease is passed on in a recessive manner, through genes carrying mutations. Our cells contain pairs of chromosomes, one inherited from each parent. One chromosome holds a full set of genes, so we have two copies of each gene in total. Someone with one normal CLN3 gene and one mutant copy of the CLN3 gene would be...
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Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...open ledges, like the top of the stack here, and they like to gather in large groups to defend their eggs and young. And then we’ve got puffins. Puffins are burrowing birds and nest down below on the grassy bank here, where they can burrow into the earth. DARRYL GRIMASON: See the lovely wee orange legs on them. ALISON MCFAUL: Lots of them down there. There’s one or...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...open to challenge. One way to sound less accusatory, and avoid defensiveness and not resolving the issue, is to use ‘I’, rather than ‘you’, statements. For example, ‘I feel that the work is not being completed on time’, sounds less blaming than ‘you never get work completed on time’. Try to remain objective: it is a person with a problem, not a problem...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...Open University’s Research Code of Practice offers guidance on Authorship, Acknowledgement and Attribution. It defines authorship as being directly involved in the creation of a work (Open University, Research Code of Practice, p. 18) by: Being solely responsible for, or making a significant contribution to, the conception/design of the project, or the collection,...
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