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A trip to Brighton
History & The Arts

A trip to Brighton

...course sample: The design and construction of Brighton Pavilion The design of the Pavilion was heavily influenced by the poetry and beliefs of the Romantic movement. Explore the other legacies of the Romantics During the First World War, the Pavilion became a hospital for the troops, as Jeremy Paxman learned Find out more about Jeremy Paxman's series on the Great War for...
Social Science
Society, Politics & Law

Social Science

...course DD100, An introduction to the social sciences: understanding social change... Social Sciences - what are they? Two social scientists explain what attracts them to the subject, and explore the differences between 'knowing' and 'doing' social science. Development of the social sciences How the social sciences developed in response to challenges to traditional systems...
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Environment: Lake Baikal
Nature & Environment

Environment: Lake Baikal

...course U216 Environment... Environment: Lake Baikal A short introduction to this album. Pearl of Siberia A region of outstanding universal value. A World Heritage Site Lake Baikal is under threat. Increasing threats The growing demand for electricity creates further pollution. Ignoring the risks The impact of the pulp and paper mill. The Gorbachov era Environmental...
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...course of researching the role of monsters and monstrosity in Renaissance Europe, and the ‘animalesque’ affinities of 16th-century Portuguese witches, prosecuted by the Catholic Inquisition, that researcher Pedro Feijó (MPhil History and Philosophy of Science) decided to lean into the worlds of those who, half a millennium later, inhabit the borders of animality and...
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...course, since votes are still being tallied, we’re not in the clear yet. But current indications are that this was a fairly uneventful election, from a cybersecurity perspective at least. So far, we’ve seen no public evidence of Russian hackers, 400-pound or otherwise, attacking individual voting machines from their bedrooms (to use a very tired old trope). There have...
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...Open University has been looking specifically at how people’s actions create the context of the space in which they communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally...
The String Quartet
History & The Arts

The String Quartet

...course——" "But the tune, like all his tunes, makes one despair—I mean hope. What do I mean? That's the worst of music! I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. Or an indecent story, now—I could relish that. The older one grows the more one likes indecency. Hah, hah! I'm laughing. What at? You said nothing, nor did the old...
The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade
History & The Arts

The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade

...Open University's Social Science courses and qualifications [Actors portray William of Somerly inspecting his plantation] In this still from the OU/BBC series The Slavery Business, William Beckford of Somerley (Richard Dillane, on horseback, left) inspects his sugar plantation in Jamaica Slavery – the ownership and control of one human being by another, to the point of...