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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...Open University, which are considered a social network where people are able to see what living organisms/species are visible in their neighbourhood or anywhere else, and more importantly help them learn about them and even identify them. It is worth noting that knowing what a living thing/species is, is just like learning to recognise a new, say, TV personality. Once the...
Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...Open University’s campus in Milton Keynes. [: A photograph of the Beagle 2 spacecraft with four engineers, within a cleanroom.]Assembly of the Beagle 2 Mars lander in the Aseptic Assembly Facility at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Beagle 2 landed on Mars in 2003 but did not communicate with Earth and was presumed lost until identified on images taken from orbit...
Oedipus: The message in the myth
History & The Arts

Oedipus: The message in the myth

...course of action. An obvious example is the story, referred to repeatedly in the Odyssey, of how Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief in the Trojan War, returned home after the War and was immediately murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus, and how in due course Agamemnon's murder was avenged by his son Orestes. Odysseus, too, is on his way home...
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...course of great general interest, because whatever else we do, we all live in this psycho social world. And we, all of us (I think) also suffer from a good deal of semantic pollution - misplaced ideas - many of which have got carried over by illicit extension from the natural sciences. So the end of the spectrum that concerns me, I think, really concerns us all. World...
Ice Cold In Alex
Science, Maths & Technology

Ice Cold In Alex

...course, they have to use the crank shaft of their 1930s truck to winch it backwards up the sand dune! Ingenius! But is it possible? Transcript Hollywood Science busters, Jonathan Hare and Robert Llewellyn, seek out an ageing Morris to prove their point with great success, but will it work with a 4 tonne truck? We set out to find out... Hand cranking is the old fashioned...
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these extreme environments, he performs laboratory-based experiments using conditions that simulate early Mars to...
Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...course, An Appreciative Approach to Inquiry. In the session, we explored what we mean by Appreciative Inquiry, focusing particularly on the generative possibilities of starting from a positive core instead of problem-focused inquiries. We explored how a different language of inquiry, involving immersing, imagining, innovating and re-immersing, changes how we feel and...
Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare, crime and society A short introduction to the album. Surveillance: safe shopping Surveillance and security in the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds. Surveillance: perceptions of security Private and public, formal and informal forms of security in the White Rose Shopping Centre. Gated communities: who and why?...