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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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World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...work, The Book of the City of Ladies, de Pizan tackled the subject of the cause of women. She celebrated women’s accomplishments and pointed to their equal abilities to men’s. She thus revised history by giving women a place in it and showed the elite women of her time how they could successfully navigate their way in a man's world. Dig deeper into literature and...
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The Speed of Extinct Organisms
Nature & Environment

The Speed of Extinct Organisms

...speed in extinct organisms has recently been applied to T. rex. This involves calculating the strength and size of muscles in the legs relative to the size of the animal. For instance, this showed that T. rex probably could not run because the muscles needed would be too bulky to fit into the legs! Next: Working out ancient ecology Like science? Go further with the OU...
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Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...work well? What enables interdisciplinary learning? [Word cloud from the presentation.] Word cloud from the presentation. In exploring each question, we discussed the imperative of shifts in how knowledge is created, who and how it is accessed and how it is shared, where the role of distinct disciplinary knowledge that is fixed, is challenged by the information...
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Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...working well, where existing strengths identified through our stories, combined with imagination, hope and courage, form a generative space for future practice transformations. During the session, we explored the ways in which Appreciative approaches can use creative methodologies to disrupt existing narratives, and the importance of storytelling about a ‘different’...
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Further uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Further uses of genetic testing

...work out how two people are related to each other, by analysing how well their DNA profiles match. This can range from identifying a child’s biological father using paternity testing, to mapping whole family relationships over time through genetic genealogy. Genetic ancestry testing uses a similar idea of comparing a person’s DNA to others from around the world to...
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Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...work out, well, having a degree could mean a better-paid job. Options are important. Copyright and acknowledgements Copyright OpenLearn publishes all its content using a creative commons licence which allows all our content to be re-used for educational purposes if The Open University is credited. More details are available here. Acknowledgements Catherine Comfort would...
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Retail management and marketing
Money & Business

Retail management and marketing

...work Using frozen peas as an example, this video takes us through the complete supply chain process. Retail buying in the fashion industry A look at how UK fashion companies trade overseas. Independent retailers Several independent retailers explain why they are a preferred alternative to the high street. The Internet debate Experts discuss the internet tools available to...
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