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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...course there were many battles in the forests around it and in other watersheds and they continue to this day. I think one of the things for those of us who’ve been involved in environmental issues for so long is why haven’t we had more success? We’re finding that we’re going back and fighting the same battles that we fought before, we’re having to do it again....
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Banerjee, R. (2005) ‘Gender identity and the development of gender roles’, in Ding, S. and Littleton, K. S. (eds) Children’s Personal and Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more...
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...course we talk about means or medians and we can also look at how the population is dispersed and there we might be looking at the standard deviation of the population. Sorry – need to concentrate on my driving for a moment! Tony Nixon: We’re going down a steep slope here and we’re about to tip up on our sides so – Paul Herriotts: We’re not about to tip up on...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...free vodka. In the economic turmoil that followed Mongolia’s independence (after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), the authorities were forced to introduce food rationing. But one thing they had plenty of was vodka, and they added it to every ration. “Each family got two bottles a week,” says Odontuya, shaking her head. “It was a very stupid policy.”...
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...little pieces of other rocks, stuck together with some kind of cement. Your igneous and metamorphic rocks will have the grains actually interlocking. And your metamorphic rocks might have some kind of alignment, but you'll often have to step back to see it. Good luck, and happy hunting! Like geology? Find out more with these FREE resources Study geo-sciences with the OU...
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...free of the mediation of journalists – were at the heart of the wave of attacks in Paris. As events unfolded, witnesses reflexively got out their cellphones and shot live coverage of what was happening before their eyes. These amateur images were then relayed by media both online and on TV. Thus the first images of the Bataclan attack, filmed from an apartment a few...
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...free-living animals in natural settings are becoming rare. Instead, direct experiences tend to be mediated, for instance in zoos or with companion animals: ‘relationships in which the animals are often bred to be highly interactive, and even dependent on us’ (2018, p.71). These mediated experiences instantiate a distance between humans and nonhuman others, a distance...
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...free of charge.) Against this background it is perhaps not surprising that insolvency is a common problem in football. Significant underperformance (either in terms of performance based on wages, or of revenues based on performance) will mean that a club cannot balance its book. In the last 30 years there have been about 70 cases of insolvency involving English clubs in...