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

Ever Wondered About... Eggs?

...out entire species such as the osprey, sea eagle and goshawk. The green-grey colour surrounding the yolk of a hard boiled egg (and the rotten smell of sulphur that often accompanies it) comes from the reaction of iron in the egg yolk and sulphur in the egg white. When heated, the two combine to make green-grey sulphide and hydrogen sulphide gas. To avoid getting a green...
Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...Out of Africa, The Ipcress File, or Dances with Wolves). Barry continued to write for the series until 1987, though other composers contributed the odd entry. Marvin Hamlisch, for instance, provided a score influenced by 1970s disco for The Spy Who Loved Me, an extract from which can be seen in the second video in this OpenLearn free course extract. Remote Control In the...
Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...out the close parallels between the languages of welfare and poverty in the 1980s and current government agendas. Thatcherism has left its ‘ideological’ mark also on higher education. In the early 1980s, Education Minister Keith Joseph, together with some of his officials in the Department of Education, reportedly went through some Open University courses in search of...
Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...out the majority of their key activities online, such as web developers, online stores and online community sites. The entrepreneurs involved demonstrated highly effectual approaches. For example, a number of them described how they had started a business at home as it kept the costs at a level they could afford, and could afford to lose if the business went wrong. One...
What do sports authorities have to do to take account of transgender competitors?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do sports authorities have to do to take account of transgender competitors?

...and knee-jerk reactions by sports policy makers, governing bodies and the media. And continuing conversations between those promoting equality for women in sport and advocates for transgender inclusion are vital to iron out any unproductive misconceptions on both sides.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. There is a long-standing tradition of making French a viable language of its own. Already in 1549, Joachim du Bellay wrote a treatise explaining, amongst other things, that translations from other languages should be curtailed because France didn’t need imports. Instead, French writers should...
Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...out in the process of memorialisation. Social scientists would caution against generalisations which, at least, are unhelpful and, at worst, harmful. Evidence on social behaviour following other mass death events suggests that some people need the support of others while, in contrast, for some the experience of such loss can be isolating. In her work on traumatic death,...
The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...out generating long detours, and in one case a user was led across the traffic lanes of a busy bus station. This is why the developers of Georgie, a similar app, decided not to include turn by turn navigation. They saw digital technology not as a solution to the difficulties of navigating a city, but merely as something that could be layered on to the range of navigation...