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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Italy

...course the best virgin olive oil. It is now found in bakers and cafés throughout Italy, sometimes with additional toppings, and often used in place of bread to make a tasty sandwich. Image: Yumarama under Creative Commons license La piadina Piadina is a very thin flatbread popular in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy (Rimini, Riccione). It provided the poor with a cheap...
Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...course West Germany and then Germany which have won three of both the World Cup and the European Championship, Spain are now on this extraordinary role with two European Championships and a World Cup, France won in 1998, Italy in 2006, even the Netherlands, which are distinguished as the under-performers, have actually reached three World Cup finals and won the European...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...Open University's Professional Doctorates (EdD/DHSC) When undertaking a Professional Doctorate, such as the EdD or the DHSC, successful candidates write a thesis which makes an original contribution to knowledge. These degrees are usually undertaken part-time by mid- to late-career professionals who write a thesis that contributes towards both theory and professional...
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected, and it’s really hard not to do it.” It’s...
Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...Open and First Languages Australia, also serves to promote the local language of Kukatja, a vulnerable language with less than 1,000 current speakers. In the video, for each hand sign that the women demonstrate there is the corresponding word in Kukatja along with its English-language translation. [A truck drives through the Big Sandy Desert] A truck drives across the...
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...open vegetation, shrubs and grasses. The chemical processes that influence biodiversity by stimulating the sprouting and blossoming of plants, fruiting and seed dispersal, are regulated partly by fires. Griselda Durigan, forestry engineer at the Forestry Institute of São Paulo, and lead-author of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, says ceasefire...
Orbital forging
Science, Maths & Technology

Orbital forging

...Minimum practical forging thicknesses: conventional 5 mm orbital 2.5 mm Thickness tolerances on warm forging of steel at 700–800˚C are ±0.15 mm. Reduced oxide scale formation compared with hot forging applications. Orbital forging should produce 25% material savings and 50% reduced energy costs. See Also: Upset forging, Hot forging (open die) and Powder forging....
The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...Open University lecturer in Classical Studies. ...Like many millions I watched the breaching of the Berlin Wall on TV in 1989. I’ve had two direct and brief encounters with East Germany before and after this historic event. I’m descended from a C19th German Jewish émigré family of musicians but I first visited East Germany in 1982 when we went on a camping holiday,...