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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...free vehicles in real time. The job of assembling a complete car takes many hours. The Burnaston factory needs to complete production of one car every 84 seconds to keep pace with demand and hence the assembly task has to be broken down into multiple steps that each take no longer than 84 seconds. If a task takes longer, the stage in the process has to be duplicated...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...free with no restrictions on their use or distribution. Analysing sections of DNA Fragments of DNA have to be propagated, i.e., large numbers of copies made of individual DNA fragments, generally grown up as sections of DNA in bacteria, or in the test tube, by all the laboratory techniques such as a polymerase chain reaction. A polymerase chain reaction is a technique...
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The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...courses But that's very much the sort of sniffy attitude which is strenuously attacked in a new book called Radical Gardening – Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden. Its author is George McKay who's Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. He now joins me in the studio together with Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative...
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Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...language of King Lear, the same in which all Shakespeare's Kings speak, the reader, or spectator, can not conceive that a King, however old and stupid he may be, could believe the words of the vicious daughters, with whom he had passed his whole life, and not believe his favorite daughter, but curse and banish her; and therefore the spectator, or reader, can not share the...
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World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration
Nature & Environment

World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration

...course on a rainy day, you could sit with your mobile/laptop/tablet and explore the environment virtually via the OU’s learning materials and engaging virtual lab such as The Open Science Laboratory. Further resources UNEP – Health Environment, Healthy People: Thematic report Ministerial policy review session Second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly...
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Rio 2016: Aisuluu Tynybekova - not quite a medalist; still a national hero
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Aisuluu Tynybekova - not quite a medalist; still a national hero

...course they knew! The trainers just wanted to seize a win. At any cost! We are disgraced in front of the whole world! The head of the country's state sport agency, which says it will appeal Artykov's doping cherge, was one of the few public figures to criticize Tynybekova. He claimed that she “gave victory away” in her duel with Malik, a comment that caused anger on...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...course, interviews can also be properly done and lead to solid understandings of social matters. Ethnographic methods have been used to challenge stereotypes and prejudices but also to further colonial oppression. Similarly, statistical methods of investigation do not only create positivistic knowledge for regressive or conservative ends; they can be used to better...
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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...courses and qualifications [British nurse taking older man's blood pressure in nurse's office] Forging relationships We all can probably recount our personal experiences of receiving some form of nursing care. This might have been as a patient in hospital, in a community or doctor’s clinic or in some other kind of health service provision. The personal relationships we...
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