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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...works and how it can be used to catch a killer...When a murder has occurred, forensic science can be essential for proving the identity of both victim and killer. Some killers have wrongly assumed that the absence of a complete body, or the removal of distinguishing features such as fingerprints, would prevent the identification of a victim. The combination of different...
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Article 10 mins
The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...work and caring responsibilities. Students can take up to sixteen years to complete their degree given the modular based study routes offered by the OU. The key aim is to `remove all inequalities in access and outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds´The OU is committed to reducing the gap and is guided by the principles set out within...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming...Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming....Climate change: Introduction - This course explores the topic of climate change and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...working in Angostura (later Ciudad Bolivar), Venezuela, advanced a similar hypothesis several years later. Nott was a keen observer and set forth clearly his views that yellow fever was what we would call today a disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from mild illness in many cases, sometimes with no or very low fever, to cases with a...
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Article 5 mins
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...worked with the World Health Organisation to talk about overcoming the "black dog of depression". Actor David Harewood spoke in the recent Open University and BBC collaborative documentary, Psychosis and Me, about his experience of diagnosis and treatment for Psychosis. Trisha Goddard, Jim Brown and Stephen Fry examine feelings of fear and sadness affecting their everyday...
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Article 10 mins
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Ireland's patron saint...[Saint Patrick] Saint Patrick On the various accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by...
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Article 10 mins
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...work, and global commerce and finance are impossible without software that control the stocks, carry out payments, find the best transport route, etc. Coding (or programming) is the construction of software. Coding involves writing a ‘recipe’, which in computing is called an algorithm, in a so called programming language that a computer can understand. When the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...social and political community. Democratic processes are a means, albeit often flawed, whereby ordinary citizens get to shape the kind of society they live in. According to the political philosopher John Rawls in his highly influential books A Theory of Justice and Justice as Fairness, the most important of what he termed primary goods was ‘self-respect’. Self-respect...
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Article 5 mins