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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...work by using vibrating columns of air that amplify an initial sound. In all wind instruments, the length of the column of air determines the general pitch of the instrument. That is why the panpipes played by Ellen used bamboo tubes cut to different lengths to produce various notes. [Kathy and Kate play the instruments] In order for a column of air to vibrate, something...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...worked around the clock for three exhausting days to provide basic nursing care – feeding people, giving medications, turning them every two hours and cleaning them up. One older man had severe cerebral palsy but was fully alert. He had been lying in a dirty diaper for hours, on a pallet on the floor in a crowded, loud, bright room. I knelt down to tell him I’d be...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...work to a polished gemstone. It is easy to access her low-key vocabulary and plain voice. When she first started writing, Boland soon moved past rhyme and other formal patterns in her poetry. She felt these were typical of male Irish poetry and made her feel she was ‘writing someone else’s poem’. As she matured, Boland freed her own voice. By the mid-1970s, her...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...work out what might be keeping them ‘feeling stuck’, and to support them to adopt strategies which help improve their day-to-day lives and allow them to reach their longer-term goals. Mindfulness is about moving away from our ‘automatic pilot’ approach (what we can also think of as our ‘doing mode’) and moving to more of a ‘being mode’. Where people...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...working in diverse environments with people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds can have on all students living and working in a multicultural society, or those who will enter a globalised business world (Arday, 2019). These findings, among others, influenced the project to explore what can be done to address the disparity between the diversity of the student body and...
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...work and travel extensively with a particular knowledge of the Himalayas. After graduating from Oxford University in English he joined The South Bank Show at LWT, moving on to Border Television in programme development before joining Channel Four as Assistant Commissioning Editor of Youth Programming. After leaving Channel Four Harry formed the independent production...
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Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. For more information, go to www.imf.org/ external/ about.htm. Treasury bills can be considered to be the safest investments available on the international capital markets,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...social function of music, but also how rhythm can shape and characterise a musical work. The famous short-short-short-long rhythm can also be referred to as a motif as it can be traced throughout the whole symphony and helps to create its structure. Here’s another extract from the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – can you hear the rhythmic motif? Audio...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs