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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...system of ecological exploitation leading to a multitude of environmental effects ranging from species extinction to loss of biodiversity and climate change. Why banning the ad was political. Whilst Greenpeace often engages with politics, its primary aim is environmental and not political. The advert ban highlights the perception of the political nature of environmental...
Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel
Science, Maths & Technology

Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel

...systems thinking free us from fear? Simon Bell & Charles Cutting's graphic novel asks the question...Find out more about The Open University's Design courses and qualifications. We are all victims of fear. Project Fear has been with us for hundreds of years. So far, we have made little attempt to map fear or understand how it is used. Find out how fear is weaponised and...
Energy efficiency: hospitals
Nature & Environment

Energy efficiency: hospitals

...Hospital transport strategies Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital. Making hospital transport eco-friendly An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a wider environmental strategy. A green hospital A British hospital incorporates a range of forward-thinking ideas to cut its energy use by 40%....
Ecosystems: modelling the Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: modelling the Earth

...systems modelling can help our understanding of how the Earth's processes affect each other. For example, by increasing the rate of decay of leaf litter in North American forests, scientists can investigate the effect on global temperatures. The acid test is to see how well the model reflects reality, by comparing the model's predictions against real-world data. This...
Why does it matter that the Sun's core rotates faster than the surface?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why does it matter that the Sun's core rotates faster than the surface?

...system. A team of astronomers have discovered that the core of our sun rotates about four times faster than the surface. It’s in the middle of our solar system, on our cosmic doorstep, so how could we have missed that before? And why is it important? It’s not easy to work out what’s inside the sun – you can’t send a probe inside to fly about. The trick is to use...
The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...systems represent a massive undertaking to achieve them within the 12 year window recommended in the IPCC 2018 climate change report. This demands a level of attention in the UK that is comparable to the UKs war effort during World War II. Such efforts must focus not just on immediate carbon targets but engage more comprehensively with the need for deep adaptation as...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past

...system encompasses North America, Africa and Asia. However, the Asian monsoon is by far the most dramatic and the largest in its ariel extent. The subsystems of the Asian monsoon are: East Asian affecting China, Japan and the Far East, Indian or south Asian affecting India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, south East Asian affecting Indonesia and northern Australia. The...
How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...system. Organology is the science of musical instrument classification; Hornbostel-Sachs is, perhaps, its most famous product. Made by, you guessed it, (Curt) Sachs and (Erich von) Hornbostel over 100 years ago, the Hornbostel-Sachs system of classification has proven to be a resilient way of categorising instruments. And to once again cut a very long story short, it does...